Scranton, South Carolina.
Typical home $137,085 (+8.7% in a year). Florence, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$375 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,997 +9%
- $126,087$137,085 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,550 +23%
- $111,535$137,085 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.
- Scranton$720
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Scranton, SC rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scranton, Florence County, South Carolina
Scranton is a town of 648 people in Florence County. Half its households earn more than $27,344 a year and half less, against $58,305 across Florence County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scranton is a very small town in Florence County, and most people who live there know one another by name. Household incomes are well below the county's, and a typical home costs far less than in many parts of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain falls steadily through the year, and snow is rare.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Florence County, the largest workplaces include McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence 01 Schools and Honda. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. Moore Farms Botanical Garden is a short drive away and makes an easy outing for a walk among planted gardens. Farther afield, Woods Bay State Park is a protected area of swamp and woodland, and Darlington Raceway, one of the best known tracks in stock car racing, is a longer drive away. Both are better suited to a day trip than a quick stop.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
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 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake City Southeast weather station, 4 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; Scranton 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scranton’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.
Scranton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scranton$137,085
- 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 Scranton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scranton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.