What is the population of Elgin town?

Elgin town has 2,176 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #187 of 475 in South Carolina.

What is the median household income in Elgin town?

Median household income in Elgin town is $84,219 a year, 7.2% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Elgin town?

Median gross rent is $1,288 a month and the median home value is $204,300, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.

Is Elgin town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Elgin town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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South Carolina · Census place 23245

Elgin town, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Elgin town, South Carolina (Elgin town, SC — Census place “Elgin town”) is 2,176 residents, ranking #187 of 475 places in South Carolina. Median household income is $84,219, the median home is worth $204,300 and median gross rent runs $1,288 a month. Looking for the Elgin town South Carolina ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Elgin town, SC: 29045.

Population: 2,176Elgin town residents
Median household income: $84,219Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $204,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,288Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 35 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 90.4%Owner-occupied households

Elgin town ZIP codes (South Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Elgin town.

The Elgin town SC ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

29045

What the numbers mean in Elgin town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Elgin town median would spend about 18.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 4.8% of residents and 90.4% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Elgin town, SC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Elgin town is a small town in South Carolina, with 2,176 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #187 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 60% of them. The median age here is 35 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Elgin town earn a median of $84,219 a year, 7.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 59% above 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 4.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Elgin town is valued at $204,300, 32.7% below the national figure and 15% above the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,288 a month, 8.4% below the national figure, or roughly $15,456 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 90.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Elgin town?: Elgin town has 2,176 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #187 of 475 in South Carolina.
What is the median household income in Elgin town?: Median household income in Elgin town is $84,219 a year, 7.2% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Elgin town?: Median gross rent is $1,288 a month and the median home value is $204,300, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.
Is Elgin town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Elgin town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Elgin town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.