Saint George, South Carolina.
Typical home $202,603 (-7.3% in a year). Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$491 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,010 -7%
- $218,613$202,603 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,369 +21%
- $167,233$202,603 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.
- Saint George$1,063
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Saint George, SC fell 7.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint George, Dorchester County, South Carolina
Saint George is a town of 1,843 people in Dorchester County. Unemployment in Dorchester County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dorchester 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saint George is a small town and the seat of Dorchester County, in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes in the county run a little under what many of its neighbors see. Winters are mild and short, summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Among the largest workplaces in town are Dorchester County government, the local school district and Lowcountry Grocers. Few people work from home, and the usual trip to work is a short one.
Things to do. Colleton State Park is the closest outdoor choice, a protected area a short drive away. Farther out, Lake Marion is a large reservoir a longer drive away, and Francis Beidler Forest is a protected area of swamp woodland, also a longer drive. For history, Eutaw Springs Battleground Park is an archaeological site a longer drive from town.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Dorchester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dorchester County had 41,814 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holly Hill Southwest weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saint George
- Dorchester CountyLocal county government1,180
- Dorchester 04 SchoolsSchool district436FTE
- FundamentalSkilled nursing facilities102
- Lowcountry GrocersGrocery stores40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,322 people in all. School districts come 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
- HurricanesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saint George’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Dorchester County and the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
Saint George home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint George$202,603
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Saint George listings — the market is cooling.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Saint George22.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saint George42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saint George6
Zip codes with a Saint George address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint George — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.