Springfield, South Carolina.
Typical home $96,918 (+2.4% in a year). Orangeburg, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$204 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,308 +2%
- $94,610$96,918 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,258 -13%
- $111,176$96,918 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.
- Springfield$509
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Springfield, SC rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springfield, Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Springfield is a town of 455 people in Orangeburg County. Half its households earn more than $47,763 a year and half less, against $45,675 across Orangeburg County. Unemployment in Orangeburg County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orangeburg 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springfield is a very small town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, where people tend to know one another. Household incomes run a little higher than across the county, and homes are priced modestly. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights in January, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Rain is steady through the year, and snow adds only a little to it.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also common. Across Orangeburg County, some of the largest workplaces are Orangeburg Schools, THE Regional Medical Center and MUSC Health Orangeburg. Jobs across the county dipped last year, and unemployment there has eased from a year ago. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is long, so most travel some distance to work.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Barnstable is not nearby, but Barnwell State Park and Aiken State Park, both protected areas, are a longer drive away. Lake Brown is a lake that sits a longer drive away as well. Those who like horse racing history can visit the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum, also a longer drive from town.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 37 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Orangeburg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orangeburg County had 27,181 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blackville West weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orangeburg County
- Orangeburg SchoolsSchool district1,907FTE
- THE Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,215FTE
- MUSC Health OrangeburgGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,198
- Flextronics AmericaLawn and garden equipment manufacturing1,059
- South Carolina State UniversityUniversity or college684
- Lennox InternationalAir-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing655
- County of OrangeburgGeneral services departments, government640
- ADUSA Dist DC 30 ElloreeGeneral warehousing and stora429
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,867 people in all across the county; Springfield 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Springfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Orangeburg County and the Orangeburg, SC metro.
Springfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springfield$96,918
- 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.
- Springfield6
Zip codes with a Springfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Springfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29137 | Salley | 2,248 | — | $106,139 |
| 29146 | Springfield | 1,226 | — | $96,805 |