Saint Matthews, South Carolina.
Typical home $176,105 (+6.4% in a year). Columbia, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$430 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,590 +6%
- $165,514$176,105 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,901 +10%
- $160,203$176,105 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 Matthews$924
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Saint Matthews, SC rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina
Saint Matthews is a town of 1,841 people in Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Matthews is a small town in Calhoun County, in the middle of South Carolina. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county are modest. Winters are mild and short, summers are long and hot, and snow is rare, though the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Calhoun 01 Schools and Calhoun Convalescent Center are among the largest workplaces in town. The drive to work is short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Congaree National Park, a national park of old river-bottom forest, is a short drive away, as is Fort Motte, an archaeological site. For a longer outing, Riverbanks Zoo and the Columbia Museum of Art are both a longer drive away, and the Santee River offers time on the water.
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- 30%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 4,571 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orangeburg weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saint Matthews
- Calhoun 01 SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- Calhoun Convalescent CenterSkilled nursing facilities172
- Saint MatthewsMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 197 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saint Matthews’ 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 Calhoun County and the Columbia, SC metro.
Saint Matthews home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Matthews$176,105
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saint Matthews11
Zip codes with a Saint Matthews address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Matthews — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.