Lake Murray of Richland, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Lake Murray of Richland CDP is a mid-size town in South Carolina, with 7,057 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #84 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 46.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Lake Murray of Richland CDP earn a median of $118,435 a year, 50.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 123% above 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 0.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lake Murray of Richland CDP is valued at $378,900, 24.9% above the national figure and 114% above the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,682 a month, 19.6% above the national figure, or roughly $20,184 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17% 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 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 79.4% 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.