Sheldon, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Sheldon CDP is a very small community in South Carolina, with 536 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #332 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 30% of them. The median age here is 44 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Sheldon CDP earn a median of $30,239 a year, 61.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 43% 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 14.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sheldon CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 66.2% 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.

With 536 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sheldon CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Sheldon CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.