Rock Hill, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Rock Hill city is a small city in South Carolina, with 74,769 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #5 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 35.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Rock Hill city earn a median of $64,770 a year, 17.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 22% 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 13.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Rock Hill city is valued at $267,400, 11.9% below the national figure and 51% above the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,279 a month, 9% below the national figure, or roughly $15,348 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.7% 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 4.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 53.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.