State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in South Carolina
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,180 ± $9 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 52.1% ± 0.7 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 26.3% ± 0.6 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $47,200. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | $1,180 ± $9 | 52.1% | 26.3% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in South Carolina
- Abbeville County$799 median gross rent · 41.9% rent burden
- Aiken County$1,062 median gross rent · 44.9% rent burden
- Allendale County$662 median gross rent · 45.2% rent burden
- Anderson County$989 median gross rent · 47.6% rent burden
- Bamberg County$815 median gross rent · 56.4% rent burden
- Barnwell County$740 median gross rent · 47.1% rent burden
- Beaufort County$1,653 median gross rent · 52.9% rent burden
- Berkeley County$1,654 median gross rent · 51.3% rent burden
- Calhoun County$1,052 median gross rent · 41.5% rent burden
- Charleston County$1,620 median gross rent · 53.4% rent burden
- Cherokee County$869 median gross rent · 45.7% rent burden
- Chester County$853 median gross rent · 45.3% rent burden
- Chesterfield County$762 median gross rent · 52% rent burden
- Clarendon County$763 median gross rent · 54% rent burden
- Colleton County$949 median gross rent · 55.1% rent burden
- Darlington County$896 median gross rent · 56.4% rent burden
- Dillon County$679 median gross rent · 45.9% rent burden
- Dorchester County$1,463 median gross rent · 56.4% rent burden
- Edgefield County$720 median gross rent · 50.7% rent burden
- Fairfield County$938 median gross rent · 61.7% rent burden
- Florence County$954 median gross rent · 50.9% rent burden
- Georgetown County$1,204 median gross rent · 58.7% rent burden
- Greenville County$1,262 median gross rent · 50.9% rent burden
- Greenwood County$898 median gross rent · 50% rent burden
- Hampton County$843 median gross rent · 56.2% rent burden
- Horry County$1,255 median gross rent · 52% rent burden
- Jasper County$1,328 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- Kershaw County$971 median gross rent · 54.8% rent burden
- Lancaster County$959 median gross rent · 57.1% rent burden
- Laurens County$880 median gross rent · 46.6% rent burden
- Lee County$823 median gross rent · 52.5% rent burden
- Lexington County$1,178 median gross rent · 48.2% rent burden
- Marion County$669 median gross rent · 49.2% rent burden
- Marlboro County$689 median gross rent · 51.8% rent burden
- McCormick County$696 median gross rent · 54.3% rent burden
- Newberry County$872 median gross rent · 44.4% rent burden
- Oconee County$881 median gross rent · 48.2% rent burden
- Orangeburg County$841 median gross rent · 54.4% rent burden
- Pickens County$972 median gross rent · 55.9% rent burden
- Richland County$1,228 median gross rent · 58.5% rent burden
- Saluda County$851 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
- Spartanburg County$1,084 median gross rent · 49.7% rent burden
- Sumter County$1,057 median gross rent · 51.8% rent burden
- Union County$804 median gross rent · 52.5% rent burden
- Williamsburg County$765 median gross rent · 54.6% rent burden
- York County$1,387 median gross rent · 50.6% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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