Olar, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Olar town is a very small community in South Carolina, with 188 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #415 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 37.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Olar town earn a median of $36,607 a year, 53.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 31% 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 14.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Olar town is valued at $80,000, 73.6% below the national figure and 55% below the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,125 a month, 20% below the national figure, or roughly $13,500 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 36.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 70.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Olar town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 36.9% of median income while homes cost only 2.2× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 188 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Olar town against its county rather than against national figures.

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.