Hampton County, SC
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 32.78, -81.14.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 20th pct · 2,430th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 17th pct · 38th of 46 South Carolina counties · median $218,959
- 20th pct · 2,439th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 37th pct · 29th of 46 South Carolina counties · median +1.2%
- US counties: not published this period
- South Carolina counties: not published this period
- 34th pct · 2,125th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 8th pct · 42nd of 46 South Carolina counties · median 18,411
- 35th pct · 2,067th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 31st pct · 32nd of 46 South Carolina counties · median $1,061
- 25th pct · 2,294th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 24th pct · 35th of 46 South Carolina counties · median 4.1
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $162,887 (Aug 2026), -0.1% over one year, +6.1% over five
- 20th pct · 2,430th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 17th pct · 38th of 46 South Carolina counties · median $218,959
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Hampton County, SC | $162,887 · -0.1% 1-yr |
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rents #
Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)
- US counties: not published this period
- South Carolina counties: not published this period
Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).
What the typical home costs to carry #
Principal and interest of $892 a month on $162,887 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,225 a month: 21.1% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $162,887 × 80% = $130,309, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $892/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $975 × 52 / 12 = $4,225) = 21% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $162,887 / ($975 × 52) = 3.2
The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Jobs & wages #
4,441 jobs at 406 employers (2026 Q1); -5.5% jobs and -1.2% average weekly wage over the year
- 34th pct · 2,125th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 8th pct · 42nd of 46 South Carolina counties · median 18,411
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Hampton County, SC | 4,441 jobs · $975/wk · -5.5% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 600 | $597 | 1.39 | +3.8% |
| Health care and social assistance | 581 | $782 | 0.87 | +1.8% |
| Wholesale trade | 352 | $1,275 | 2.07 | +1.4% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 324 | $1,210 | 10.10 | +3.5% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 163 | $1,368 | 0.87 | +0.0% |
| Professional and technical services | 119 | $1,483 | 0.39 | -35.7% |
| Finance and insurance | 81 | $901 | 0.45 | +1.2% |
| Educational services | 66 | $503 | 0.69 | +13.8% |
| Utilities | 23 | $2,501 | 1.31 | +0.0% |
| Construction | withheld | |||
| Manufacturing | withheld | |||
| Information | withheld |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Drought #
D1 moderate drought
Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.
US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.
Reservoirs #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
Stream gauges #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Groundwater #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
Water stress #
moderate (0.25)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$359.0 m in deposits at 4 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 4,666, highly concentrated. $131.0 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $127.8 m, contracts $2.7 m), $29,506 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Palmetto State Bank | $217.6 m · 60.6% share · 2 offices | |
| Truist Bank | $108.0 m · 30.1% share · 1 office | |
| Regions Bank | $33.4 m · 9.3% share · 1 office | |
| Hampton, SC | $131.0 m FY2026 · $29,506/job |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmetto State Bank | $217,634,000 | 60.6% | 2 |
| Truist Bank | $107,984,000 | 30.1% | 1 |
| Regions Bank | $33,377,000 | 9.3% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 4,666 across 3 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 3 banks with deposits in the county = 60.6² + 30.1² + 9.3² = 4,666
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Federal obligations #
That is $29,506 per covered job, against 4,441 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $131.0 m / 4,441 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $29,506
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
National context, not this county #
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 12.69 | 2026-10-05 | +3.3% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.60 | 2026-10-06 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 6.00 | 2026-09-22 | -14.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 6,830.00 | 2026-08-01 | +7.4% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 96.16 | 2026-09-29 | -3.2% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.28 | 2026-10-01 | +3.6% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 646,347.00 | 2026-08-01 | +1.1% |
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
What changed #
Hampton County, SC: 15 findings, 1 at an alert level, 5 at a watch level and 9 noted
alertHampton County, SC's covered employment is -5.5% against a year earlier, an alert level here: covered employment at least 3 percent below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -5.5 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchHampton County, SC's covered employment is -5.5% against a year earlier, a watch level here: covered employment below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -5.5 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchHampton County, SC's average weekly wage is -1.2% against a year earlier, a watch level here: average weekly wage below the same quarter a year earlier, before inflation (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.avgWeeklyWage = -1.2 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchHampton County, SC's typical home value is -1.3% against the previous month, a watch level here: typical home value at least 1 percent below the previous month (arithmetic on the Zillow ZHVI month columns; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- test: home.momPct = -1.259908040293443 <= -1
- month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns
arithmetic on the Zillow ZHVI month columns; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchHampton County, SC's momentum index is -0.41, a watch level here: momentum index in the cooling band (the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- test: momentum = -0.4139146886118078 <= -0.25
- momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)
the cooling band of the momentum index computed here, score at or below -0.25; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
Read all 12 findings in the full brief
Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.