Quinby, South Carolina.
Typical home $198,900 (+2.8% in a year). Florence, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$590 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,373 +3%
- $193,528$198,900 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,409 +29%
- $154,491$198,900 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Quinby$1,044
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Quinby, SC rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Quinby, Florence County, South Carolina
Quinby is a town of 915 people in Florence County. Half its households earn more than $66,458 a year and half less, against $58,305 across Florence County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Florence County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Florence County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Quinby is a very small town in Florence County, and its residents are older than in most American communities. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, a far higher share of owners than is usual, and household incomes run above the county's. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest weather in January, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and rain and a little melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Florence County, some of the largest workplaces are McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence 01 Schools and Honda. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and the commute to work is fairly typical, with a small number working from home.
Things to do. The Florence Air & Missile Museum is in or beside town, and the War Between the States Museum and Pepsi Cola Lake are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Darlington Raceway, one of the best known race tracks in the region, and Kalmia Gardens, a botanical garden, are a longer drive away.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Florence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Florence County had 69,704 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Florence Regional Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Florence County
- Mcleod Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,771FTE
- Florence 01 SchoolsSchool district2,539FTE
- Mcleod Physician AssociatesManaging offices of physicians and surgeons1,566
- HondaAll-terrain vehicles, wheeled or tracked, manufacturing1,244
- QVC, Inc. (Florence)General warehousing and storage1,097
- Ruiz Food ProductsMexican foods, frozen, manufacturing976
- Musc Health Florence Medical CenterGeneral hospital904FTE
- Foodservice Florence635
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 110 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,556 people in all across the county; Quinby has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Quinby’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 Florence County and the Florence, SC metro.
Quinby home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Quinby$198,900
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Quinby address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Quinby — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.