Mount Pleasant, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Mount Pleasant town is a small city in South Carolina, with 92,662 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #4 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 42.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Mount Pleasant town earn a median of $121,364 a year, 54.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 129% above the $53,071 median for the 263 South Carolina cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 5.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mount Pleasant town is valued at $667,100, 119.9% above the national figure and 277% above the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,026 a month, 44.1% above the national figure, or roughly $24,312 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20% 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. 73.7% 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.

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.