Litchfield Beach, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Litchfield Beach CDP is a mid-size town in South Carolina, with 9,544 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #64 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 86% of them. The median age here is 62.7 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 Litchfield Beach CDP earn a median of $74,451 a year, 5.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 40% 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 9.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Litchfield Beach CDP is valued at $409,100, 34.8% above the national figure and 131% above the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,623 a month, 15.4% above the national figure, or roughly $19,476 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.2% 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 5.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82.5% 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. 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.

A median age of 62.7 puts Litchfield Beach CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

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.