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Privateer, South Carolina.

A community in Sumter County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Sumter County’s.

Living in Privateer, Sumter County, South Carolina

Privateer, in Sumter County, had 1,980 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sumter County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sumter County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 1,980 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Privateer for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 5.4% Sumter County, August 2026; 5.8% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Privateer for the Census survey to measure.
  • 8%of adults have a degree
  • 20 mintypical commute
  • 0%work from home

What people in Sumter County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care25%
  • Manufacturing15%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Professional and business services10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%
  • Building trades7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sumter County had 35,348 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 55° and 33°; warmest in July, 90° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 55° 33° F M A M J J 90° 70° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 55° and 33°; warmest in July, 90° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 55° 33° F M A M J J 90° 70° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sumter weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Sumter County

  1. Thompson Construction GroupIndustrial building construction2,488
  2. Sumter 01 SchoolsSchool district2,178FTE
  3. Sumter UtilitiesTower, power distribution and communication, construction1,465
  4. Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter PlantTires manufacturing1,410
  5. Pilgrim's sumter Fresh ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing976
  6. Becton Dickinson SumterMedical supplies merchant wholesalers974
  7. Eaton942
  8. Prisma Health Tuomey HospitalGeneral hospital939FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,533 people in all across the county; Privateer has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. HurricanesRelatively high
  2. Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of PrivateerRelatively moderate
  3. EarthquakesRelatively moderate
  4. Strong windrelatively high in parts of PrivateerRelatively moderate
  5. HailRelatively moderate
  6. Lightningrelatively high in parts of PrivateerRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Privateer’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Sumter County.