Dentsville, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Dentsville CDP is a mid-size town in South Carolina, with 15,396 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #40 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 91% of them. The median age here is 36 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Dentsville CDP earn a median of $44,029 a year, 43.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 17% below the $53,071 median for the 263 South Carolina cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 17.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dentsville CDP is valued at $154,600, 49% below the national figure and 13% below the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,145 a month, 18.6% below the national figure, or roughly $13,740 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 31.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 37.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Dentsville CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 31.2% of median income while homes cost only 3.5× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.