Shell Point, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Shell Point CDP is a small town in South Carolina, with 2,005 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #198 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 58% of them. The median age here is 44.4 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 Shell Point CDP earn a median of $65,840 a year, 16.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 24% 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 4.4% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Shell Point CDP is valued at $233,600, 23% below the national figure and 32% above the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,185 a month, 15.7% below the national figure, or roughly $14,220 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.6% 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 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 76.2% 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.

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.