Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety1#15,441/15,637
Economy3#15,234/15,631
Housing36#9,543/14,977
Health16#13,160/15,609
Healthcare6#14,653/15,650
Environment63#5,695/15,453
Education15#13,369/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,888/15,650
Community39#9,489/15,651
Leisure & amenities5#14,846/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Chesterfield, South Carolina ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Chesterfield County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Effective property tax rate · low0.50%
87/100South Carolina 0.49%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Public libraries · high1.4 /10k
83/100South Carolina 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesChesterfield County value
Comfortable days · high30.5%
80/100South Carolina 31.6%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationChesterfield County value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100South Carolina 0 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyChesterfield County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low140 min
74/100South Carolina 163 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesChesterfield County value
Loneliness · low34.4%
72/100South Carolina 32.7%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Firearm deaths · high31.8 /100k
2/100South Carolina 18.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataChesterfield County value
Homicide rate · high15.6 /100k
2/100South Carolina 8.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataChesterfield County value
Mental health care shortage · high19.0
3/100South Carolina 14.9United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationChesterfield County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.1 /10k
3/100South Carolina 5.1 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsChesterfield County value
Reading scores · low2.63
5/100South Carolina 2.93United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteChesterfield County value
Violent crime rate · high583 /100k
6/100South Carolina 388 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationChesterfield County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
1,549 (2015-2019) → 1,465 (2020-2024)
−5.4%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 4.1× (2020-2024)
+103%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
High school diploma or higherWorsening
89.1% (2015-2019) → 72.3% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Poverty rateWorsening
15.8% (2015-2019) → 28.3% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
26.4% (2015-2019) → 34.4% (2020-2024)
+8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.5% (2015-2019) → 83.6% (2020-2024)
+7.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Chesterfield, South Carolina improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined3

Poverty+13 points15.8% → 28.3%
Price / income+2.1×2.0× → 4.1×
Household income−20%$55,815 → $44,526

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Chesterfield, South Carolina between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.1 min2015-2019	22.5 min2020-2024	−0.6 min	Within the margin of error	55%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.2%2015-2019	18.4%2020-2024	−1.8 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Broadband subscriptions	76.5%2015-2019	83.6%2020-2024	+7.1 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Child poverty rate	26.4%2015-2019	34.4%2020-2024	+8 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Effective property tax rate	0.53%2015-2019	0.50%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	20%
High school diploma or higher	89.1%2015-2019	72.3%2020-2024	−17 points	Within the margin of error	0%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	4.1×2020-2024	+2.1×	Declined	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4472015-2019	0.4962020-2024	+0.050	Within the margin of error	16%
Median household income	$55,8152015-2019	$44,5262020-2024	−20%	Declined	1%
Poverty rate	15.8%2015-2019	28.3%2020-2024	+13 points	Declined	2%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	45.1%2015-2019	47.8%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.7%2015-2019	12.0%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Within the margin of error	10%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Chesterfield, South Carolina five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Chesterfield, South Carolina in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Chesterfield, South Carolina itself moved −20.7 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,465 residents (±297)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 30–39 men (−6.9 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,465 residents (±297)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

White62%905
Black30%†436
Hispanic or Latino4.0%†59

Education

1,038 residents (±200)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

No high school diploma28%†288
High school or GED29%†300
Some college17%

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

591 households (±104)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Under $25k34%†201
$25k–50k20%†121
$50k–75k18%†107
$75k–100k7.4%†44
$100k–150k8.8%†52
$150k–200k8.1%†48
$200k or more3.0%†18

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $50k–75k (−12.9 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

591 households (±104)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Own64%379
Rent36%†212

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−9.4 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

207 households (±74)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Under $75049%†101
$750–1,00033%†69
$1,000–1,50018%†

Home values

379 homes (±75)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Under $150k42%†159
$150k–250k32%†122
$250k–400k15%†57

Age of homes

705 homes (±118)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

2010 or later0.6%†4
2000–20094.8%†34
1980–199927%†

Size of homes

705 homes (±118)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom8.1%†57
2 bedrooms27%†190

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

484 workers (±118)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Drive alone86%418
Carpool9.3%†45
Public transit0.0%0
Walk1.4%†7
Bike0.0%0
Work from home2.9%†14
Other0.0%0

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

470 workers (±118)

Chesterfield, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Under 15 min37%†173
15–29 min32%†151
30–44 min16%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Chesterfield County, the county holding most of Chesterfield's residents.

Chesterfield County has 690 employer establishments, 156 for every 10,000 residents (0.63× the US rate of 248; 0.69× South Carolina's), with 13,223 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,912. The Census Bureau also counts 2,772 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 690; 2,772 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 156; US 248 · South Carolina 228
Paid employees: 13,223
Average annual pay: $52,912; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Chesterfield County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	58	13.1	0.72×Fewer than typical	858	$16,121	25
Religious organizations	47	10.7	1.92×More than typical	193	$17,311	—
Specialty trade contractors	35	7.9	0.51×Fewer than typical	182	$46,577	207
Ambulatory health care services	34	7.7	0.37×Fewer than typical	444	$47,383	91
Limited-service restaurants	28	6.3	0.79×Fewer than typical	697	$15,129	8
Full-service restaurants	26	5.9	0.77×Fewer than typical	133	$21,850	13
Gasoline stations	26	5.9	1.82×More than typical	159	$31,264	8
Truck transportation	25	5.7	1.12×About typical	177	$94,243	115
General merchandise stores	20	4.5	2.56×More than typical	425	$24,181	23
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	16	3.6	2.27×More than typical	2,402	$73,778	7
Building equipment contractors	15	3.4	0.56×Fewer than typical	94	$46,021	53
Insurance agencies and brokerages	15	3.4	0.77×Fewer than typical	280	$114,639	38

Rank places for an industry Open Chesterfield County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 44,126 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Chesterfield, South Carolina: $0 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $2,007
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.7%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

134.7FY2017
0FY2020
530.8FY2022
4.4KFY2024
0FY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Chesterfield, South Carolina, so they do not add up across cities.

Chesterfield, South Carolina's figures are part of those of Chesterfield County, SC ($1M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Chesterfield is mostly in Chesterfield County.

See federal money in Chesterfield County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Chesterfield, South Carolina is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Russell FryR-SC-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Chesterfield County8100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Chesterfield County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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