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Salters, South Carolina.

Typical home $113,277 (-1.5% in a year).

What it costs per month · Salters $595/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$274 (+86%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $1,671 -1%
$114,948$113,277 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $3,994 +4%
$109,283$113,277 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Salters $595 South Carolina $1,597 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Salters$595
  • South Carolina$1,597
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 97 years.

Typical home values in Salters, SC fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Salters, Williamsburg County, South Carolina

The Census does not count Salters on its own, so the figures here are Williamsburg County's. Half the county's households earn more than $46,213 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Williamsburg County was 7.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Williamsburg County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 30,000 about, in Williamsburg County: the Census does not count Salters on its own
Household income $46,213 the median in Williamsburg County, give or take $4,361
Unemployment 7.1% Williamsburg County, August 2026; 8.5% a year before
Homes 76% lived in by their owners; 24% rented

Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salters is a small town in Williamsburg County, in the east of South Carolina. Figures for the area are published for the county as a whole, which includes the town. Across Williamsburg County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well below the national level. The population skews older than the country as a whole, and a sizable share of residents live below the poverty line.

Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail and professional and business services. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown modestly. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home, so most commutes are made by car.

Things to do. Midway Dragway is a race track a short drive away, which makes it the closest place for a day out. Lake Marion, a reservoir, and Francis Marion National Forest, a protected area, are both a longer drive away and suit those who enjoy open water or walking among trees.

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  • 12,291households
  • 43.2median age
  • 17%of adults have a degree
  • 23%below the poverty line
  • 31 mintypical commute
  • 7%work from home

What people in Williamsburg County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care25%
  • Manufacturing15%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Professional and business services9%
  • Building trades9%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities9%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williamsburg County had 6,466 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 59° and 33°; warmest in July, 93° and 69° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 59° 33° F M A M J J 93° 69° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 59° and 33°; warmest in July, 93° and 69° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 59° 33° F M A M J J 93° 69° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°.

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

Largest workplaces in Williamsburg County

  1. Williamsburg 01 SchoolsSchool district585FTE
  2. DSMPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing230
  3. House Of Raeford FarmsPoultry manufacturing220
  4. Williamsburg Regional HospitalCritical access hospital181FTE
  5. Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice152
  6. Medical University Hospital AuthoritGeneral hospital135FTE
  7. Santee Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power111
  8. Williamsburg Technical CollegeTwo-year college94

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,183 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (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

  1. HurricanesRelatively high
  2. EarthquakesRelatively moderate
  3. Strong windRelatively moderate
  4. Ice stormsRelatively moderate
  5. LightningRelatively moderate
  6. Cold wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Williamsburg County, 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 Williamsburg County.

Salters home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Salters $113,277 South Carolina $304,319 United States $366,157
$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Salters$113,277
  • 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.

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Zip codes with a Salters address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salters — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Salters