North Myrtle Beach, SC population, income and ZIP codes

North Myrtle Beach city is a mid-size town in South Carolina, with 19,343 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #32 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 60.8 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 North Myrtle Beach city earn a median of $72,111 a year, 8.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 36% above the $53,071 median for the 263 South Carolina cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 6.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in North Myrtle Beach city is valued at $371,900, 22.6% above the national figure and 110% above the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,171 a month, 16.7% below the national figure, or roughly $14,052 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.5% 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 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82.9% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 60.8 puts North Myrtle Beach city 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.

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.