What is the population of Yemassee town?

Yemassee town has 1,007 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #264 of 475 in South Carolina.

What is the median household income in Yemassee town?

Median household income in Yemassee town is $36,923 a year, 53% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yemassee town?

Median gross rent is $736 a month and the median home value is $169,800, so rent absorbs about 23.9% of median household income.

Is Yemassee town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yemassee town is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 23.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Yemassee, SC population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Yemassee, South Carolina (Yemassee, SC — Census place “Yemassee town”) is 1,007 residents, ranking #264 of 475 places in South Carolina. Median household income is $36,923, the median home is worth $169,800 and median gross rent runs $736 a month. Looking for the Yemassee South Carolina ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Yemassee, SC: 29945.

Population: 1,007Yemassee town residents
Median household income: $36,923Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $169,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $736Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 60.1%Owner-occupied households

Yemassee ZIP codes (South Carolina)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Yemassee.

The Yemassee SC ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

29945

What the numbers mean in Yemassee town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Yemassee town median would spend about 23.9% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 4.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 31.4% of residents and 60.1% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Yemassee town, SC in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Yemassee town is a small town in South Carolina, with 1,007 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #264 of 475 ranked by population — larger than 44% of them. The median age here is 39.8 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 Yemassee town earn a median of $36,923 a year, 53% below the national figure of $78,538 and 30% 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 31.4% 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 Yemassee town is valued at $169,800, 44% below the national figure and 4% below the $177,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $736 a month, 47.7% below the national figure, or roughly $8,832 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.9% 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 4.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 60.1% 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.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Yemassee town?: Yemassee town has 1,007 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #264 of 475 in South Carolina.
What is the median household income in Yemassee town?: Median household income in Yemassee town is $36,923 a year, 53% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yemassee town?: Median gross rent is $736 a month and the median home value is $169,800, so rent absorbs about 23.9% of median household income.
Is Yemassee town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yemassee town is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 23.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Yemassee town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.