Timmonsville, South Carolina.
Typical home $180,017 (+13.2% in a year). Florence, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$561 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,957 +13%
- $159,060$180,017 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,109 +35%
- $132,909$180,017 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.
- Timmonsville$945
- 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 Timmonsville, SC rose 13.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Timmonsville, Florence County, South Carolina
Timmonsville is a town of 2,099 people in 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Timmonsville is a small town in Florence County, South Carolina, where the people tend to be around the middle of the age range rather than especially young or old. Home values here run well below what many parts of the country would expect, and a four-year degree is held by far fewer adults than in the country as a whole. Winters are mild and short, with cold snaps around January, while summers are hot, and rain or melted snow falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Timmonsville work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. Across Florence County, the largest workplaces include McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence 01 Schools and Honda. The typical trip to work is moderate, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Darlington Raceway, one of the best known tracks in stock-car racing, is a longer drive away. Nature lovers can head to Woods Bay State Park or Lee State Park, both protected areas that are also a longer drive away. Kalmia Gardens, a botanical garden, is another longer drive away for a quiet afternoon outdoors.
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- 862households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
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 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Darlington weather station, 12 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; Timmonsville 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Timmonsville’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.
Timmonsville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Timmonsville$180,017
- 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.
- Timmonsville16
Zip codes with a Timmonsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Timmonsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.