What is the population of Kingstree town?

Kingstree town has 3,161 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #141 of 475 in South Carolina.

What is the median household income in Kingstree town?

Median household income in Kingstree town is $28,776 a year, 63.4% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $526 a month and the median home value is $127,300, so rent absorbs about 21.9% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 4.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Kingstree town is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 21.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Kingstree, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Kingstree, South Carolina (Kingstree, SC — Census place “Kingstree town”) is 3,161 residents, ranking #141 of 475 places in South Carolina. Median household income is $28,776, the median home is worth $127,300 and median gross rent runs $526 a month. Looking for the Kingstree South Carolina ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Kingstree, SC: 29556.

Population: 3,161Kingstree town residents
Median household income: $28,776Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $127,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $526Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 48%Owner-occupied households

Kingstree ZIP codes (South Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Kingstree.

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

29556

What the numbers mean in Kingstree town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Kingstree town median would spend about 21.9% 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 4.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 34.5% of residents and 48% of households own their home.

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

Kingstree town, SC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Kingstree town is a small town in South Carolina, with 3,161 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #141 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 70% of them. The median age here is 41.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Kingstree town earn a median of $28,776 a year, 63.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 46% below the $53,071 median for the 263 South Carolina cities we cover. 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 34.5% 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 Kingstree town is valued at $127,300, 58% below the national figure and 28% below the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $526 a month, 62.6% below the national figure, or roughly $6,312 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 48% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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.

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 Kingstree town?: Kingstree town has 3,161 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #141 of 475 in South Carolina.
What is the median household income in Kingstree town?: Median household income in Kingstree town is $28,776 a year, 63.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Kingstree town?: Median gross rent is $526 a month and the median home value is $127,300, so rent absorbs about 21.9% of median household income.
Is Kingstree town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Kingstree town is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 21.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Kingstree 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.