
South Carolina · FIPS 45049
Hampton ZIP codes — Hampton County, South Carolina
Quick answer
Hampton County is home to 18,555 residents with a median household income of $43,059 and a median home value of $102,400. 73.6% of households own their home and 20% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Hampton ZIP code? 9 ZIP code areas fall inside Hampton County, South Carolina, listed in full below.
- Population
- 18,555Hampton County residents
- Median household income
- $43,059Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $102,400Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $815Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 40.9 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 73.6%Owner-occupied households
Hampton County, SC in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Hampton County is a mid-size town in South Carolina, with 18,555 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 40.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Hampton County earn a median of $43,059 a year, 45.2% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 20% 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 Hampton County is valued at $102,400, 66.2% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $815 a month, 42% below the national figure, or roughly $9,780 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.7% 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 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 73.6% 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.
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.
ZIP codes in Hampton County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Hampton County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in South Carolina
Largest Census places in South Carolina by population.
- Charleston city 152,014
- Columbia city 138,019
- North Charleston city 117,460
- Mount Pleasant town 92,662
- Rock Hill city 74,769
- Greenville city 71,755
- Summerville town 51,262
- Goose Creek city 46,964
- Sumter city 43,065
- Florence city 40,205
- Greer city 39,191
- Spartanburg city 38,578
Nearby counties
Other counties in South Carolina.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Hampton County?
- Hampton County has 18,555 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Hampton County?
- Median household income in Hampton County is $43,059 a year, 45.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Hampton County?
- Median gross rent is $815 a month and the median home value is $102,400, so rent absorbs about 22.7% of median household income.
- Is Hampton County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Hampton County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Hampton County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.