Helena, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Helena CDP is a very small community in South Carolina, with 571 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #325 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 49.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Helena CDP earn a median of not published a year. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 20.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Helena CDP is valued at $132,100, 56.5% below the national figure and 25% below the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $892 a month, 36.6% below the national figure, or roughly $10,704 across a full year. 72.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

With 571 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Helena CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Helena CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.