Parker, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Parker CDP is a mid-size town in South Carolina, with 12,564 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #51 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 89% of them. The median age here is 31.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Parker CDP earn a median of $38,607 a year, 50.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% below 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 29.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Parker CDP is valued at $121,800, 59.9% below the national figure and 31% below the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,066 a month, 24.2% below the national figure, or roughly $12,792 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 33.1% 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 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 41% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Parker CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 33.1% of median income while homes cost only 3.2× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.