Wedgefield, South Carolina.
Typical home $137,884 (+3.2% in a year). Sumter, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $65 (-8%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $4,249 +3%
- $133,635$137,884 since Sep 2025
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.
- Wedgefield$724
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Wedgefield, SC rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wedgefield, Sumter County, South Carolina
Wedgefield, in Sumter County, had 1,507 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $44,410 a year and half less, against $56,693 across Sumter County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Sumter County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wedgefield is a small community in Sumter County, South Carolina, home to a population that is small even by the standards of the area. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are modest in price. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, though a fair number do. Winters are mild and see almost no snow, while summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Sumter County, some of the largest workplaces are Sumter 01 Schools, Continental Tire the Americas, and Pilgrim's Sumter Fresh Processing. The typical commute is a long one, and almost no one works from home. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, Poinsett State Park and Manchester State Forest offer protected woods and trails, and Swan Lake/Iris Gardens is a botanical garden. Farther afield, Congaree National Park is a national park a longer drive away, and the Santee River and Wateree River are also a longer drive off for time on the water.
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- 951households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sumter County had 35,348 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wedgefield weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sumter County
- Thompson Construction GroupIndustrial building construction2,488
- Sumter 01 SchoolsSchool district2,178FTE
- Sumter UtilitiesTower, power distribution and communication, construction1,465
- Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter PlantTires manufacturing1,410
- Pilgrim's sumter Fresh ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing976
- Becton Dickinson SumterMedical supplies merchant wholesalers974
- Eaton942
- Prisma Health Tuomey HospitalGeneral hospital939FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,533 people in all across the county; Wedgefield 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wedgefield’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 Sumter County and the Sumter, SC metro.
Wedgefield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wedgefield$137,884
- 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.
- Wedgefield7
Zip codes with a Wedgefield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wedgefield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.