Sheldon, South Carolina.
Typical home $2,307,747 (+9.8% in a year). Hilton Head Island-Bluffton, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$7,143 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $205,828 +10%
- $2,101,919$2,307,747 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $606,462 +36%
- $1,701,285$2,307,747 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.
- Sheldon$12,113
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Sheldon, SC rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sheldon, Beaufort County, South Carolina
Sheldon, in Beaufort County, had 579 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sheldon is a very small community in Beaufort County, with far fewer people than most towns and a quiet, rural feel. Homes here are worth a great deal more than the typical home in much of the country, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and brief, while summers run hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Beaufort County, some of the largest workplaces are Beaufort 01 Schools, Beaufort Memorial Hospital and The Sea Pines Resort. The drive to work is long compared with many places, and jobs across the county grew a little last year.
Things to do. The Old Sheldon Church Ruins, an archaeological site, lie in or beside town and make an easy place to walk and look around. A short drive away you will find the Coosawhatchie River, a quiet river for a day outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, a protected area that tells part of the region's history.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 32 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 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yemassee North weather station, 8 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; Sheldon 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- 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 Sheldon’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 Beaufort County and the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton, SC metro.
Sheldon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sheldon$2,307,747
- 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 Sheldon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sheldon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.