Summerton, South Carolina.
Typical home $203,600 (-2.6% in a year). Sumter, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$475 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,342 -3%
- $208,943$203,600 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $443 -0%
- $204,043$203,600 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.
- Summerton$1,069
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Summerton, SC fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina
Summerton is a town of 814 people in Clarendon County. Unemployment in Clarendon County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clarendon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Summerton is a very small town in Clarendon County, in the South Carolina Midlands. Homes here are priced a little below what many American towns see, and household incomes across Clarendon County sit below what is typical for the state and the country. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights in January, and snow is rare. Summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many people who live in Summerton work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in the building trades. Across Clarendon County, some of the largest workplaces are Clarendon 06 Schools, McLeod Health Clarendon and Walmart. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though job numbers have barely grown.
Things to do. Santee State Park and the Santee National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas, are a short drive away, as is the Santee Indian Mound and Fort Watson, an archaeological site. A longer drive takes you to Lake Marion, a large reservoir good for boating and fishing, and to Congaree National Park, known for its old floodplain forest.
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What people in Clarendon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clarendon County had 6,700 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manning weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clarendon County
- Clarendon 06 SchoolsSchool district647FTE
- Clarendon CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- Mcleod Health ClarendonGeneral hospital235FTE
- Clarendon County DSN BoardGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability198
- Clarendon OSB183
- Trimaco/Icon ProtectionPaper products, die-cut, made from purchased paper or paperboard175
- CumminsAll-terrain vehicles, wheeled or tracked, manufacturing148
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,380 people in all across the county; Summerton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Summerton’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 Clarendon County and the Sumter, SC metro.
Summerton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Summerton$203,600
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Summerton listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Summerton25.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Summerton49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Summerton7
Zip codes with a Summerton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Summerton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.