Seabrook, South Carolina.
Typical home $400,152 (+4.7% in a year). Hilton Head Island-Bluffton, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,208 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,041 +5%
- $382,111$400,152 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,427 +23%
- $324,725$400,152 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.
- Seabrook$2,100
- 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 Seabrook, SC rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seabrook, Beaufort County, South Carolina
Seabrook, in Beaufort County, had 1,255 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Beaufort County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Beaufort County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seabrook is a very small community in Beaufort County, in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and the typical trip to work is a fairly long one. Homes are valued well above what many people would expect for a place this size.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Beaufort County, the largest workplaces include Beaufort 01 Schools, Beaufort Memorial Hospital and The Sea Pines Resort. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Reconstruction Era National Historical Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Old Sheldon Church Ruins, an archaeological site, is also close by. The Coosawhatchie River is a short drive away for time near the water, while the Ernest F. Hollings Ace Basin National Wildlife Refuge is a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
What people in Beaufort County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Beaufort County had 72,257 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 45 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beaufort Mcas weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Beaufort County
- Beaufort 01 SchoolsSchool district3,293FTE
- Beaufort Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,396FTE
- The Sea Pines ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities688
- Palmetto Bluff InvestmentsCountry clubs394
- University of South Carolina BeaufortUniversity or college380
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- Hilton Head HospitalGeneral hospital321FTE
- Fripp Island HospitalityHospitality311
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 127 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,685 people in all across the county; Seabrook has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seabrook’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Beaufort County and the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton, SC metro.
Seabrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seabrook$400,152
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Seabrook listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Seabrook13.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Seabrook23
Zip codes with a Seabrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seabrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.