Town · McCormick County, South Carolina

McCormick, South Carolina

McCormick is a town in McCormick County, South Carolina. It has 2,506 residents. McCormick, South Carolina has a quality-of-life score of 27 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,462 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within South Carolina it ranks #118 of 268 cities and towns. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), grocery stores (high) and firearm deaths (low). It ranks worst on reading scores (low), math scores (low) and dentists (low).

27Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,462 of 15,651 cities and towns
South Carolina: #118 of 268 in SC
Population: 2,506 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 618.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 4543720

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

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

Safety68#5,058/15,637
Economy14#13,474/15,631
Housing34#9,822/14,977
Health28#11,211/15,609
Healthcare27#11,444/15,650
Environment68#4,912/15,453
Education7#14,580/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,125/15,650
Community96#628/15,651
Leisure & amenities18#12,873/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where McCormick, South Carolina ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “McCormick 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

Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100South Carolina 16.3 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMcCormick County value
Grocery stores · high4.9 /10k
99/100South Carolina 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMcCormick County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100South Carolina 18.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMcCormick County value
Students per teacher · low9.7×
99/100South Carolina 13.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsMcCormick County value
Mammography screening · high59.0%
98/100South Carolina 51.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMcCormick County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100South Carolina 8.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMcCormick County value

Weaknesses

Reading scores · low2.18
0/100South Carolina 2.93United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMcCormick County value
Math scores · low2.11
0/100South Carolina 2.92United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMcCormick County value
Dentists · low10 /100k
1/100South Carolina 60 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMcCormick County value
Average weekly wage · low$837
2/100South Carolina $1,226United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMcCormick County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.0 /10k
3/100South Carolina 5.1 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMcCormick County value
Primary care shortage · high19.0
3/100South Carolina 9.3United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMcCormick County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,992 (2015-2019) → 2,506 (2020-2024)
−16%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
37.5% (2015-2019) → 65.4% (2020-2024)
+28 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
32.2% (2015-2019) → 48.4% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
10.0% (2015-2019) → 2.6% (2020-2024)
−7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
28.0% (2015-2019) → 35.3% (2020-2024)
+7.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
67.0% (2015-2019) → 73.9% (2020-2024)
+6.9 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, McCormick, South Carolina improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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.

Declined1

Rent burden+28 points37.5% → 65.4%

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of McCormick, South Carolina between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.9 min2015-2019	26.0 min2020-2024	+2.1 min	Within the margin of error	26%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.0%2015-2019	10.3%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Broadband subscriptions	67.0%2015-2019	73.9%2020-2024	+6.9 points	Within the margin of error	43%
Child poverty rate	32.2%2015-2019	48.4%2020-2024	+16 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Effective property tax rate	0.56%2015-2019	0.60%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	11%
High school diploma or higher	74.0%2015-2019	71.4%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	82%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4512015-2019	0.4892020-2024	+0.039	Within the margin of error	22%
Median household income	$32,5542015-2019	$41,1112020-2024	+26%	Within the margin of error	47%
Poverty rate	21.2%2015-2019	26.6%2020-2024	+5.5 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Rent as share of income	28.0%2015-2019	35.3%2020-2024	+7.3 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Rent-burdened households	37.5%2015-2019	65.4%2020-2024	+28 points	Declined	4%

“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 McCormick, South Carolina five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of McCormick, 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, McCormick, South Carolina itself moved −14.1 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

2,506 residents (±345)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

698 households (±166)

McCormick, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Under $25k37%†260
$25k–50k23%†163
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

698 households (±166)

McCormick, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Own57%†401
Rent43%†297

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

592 workers (±243)

McCormick, South Carolina
South Carolina share

Drive alone89%†526
Carpool1.7%†10
Public transit

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 McCormick County, the county holding most of McCormick's residents.

McCormick County has 105 employer establishments, 107 for every 10,000 residents (0.43× the US rate of 248; 0.47× South Carolina's), with 906 paid employees at an average annual pay of $29,858. The Census Bureau also counts 674 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 105; 674 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 107; US 248 · South Carolina 228
Paid employees: 906
Average annual pay: $29,858; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	11	11.2	2.03×More than typical	43	$12,047	—
Restaurants and other eating places	10	10.2	0.56×Fewer than typical	79	$15,582	—
Full-service restaurants	6	6.1	0.80×Too few to compare	30	$12,767	—
Construction of buildings	5	5.1	0.68×Too few to compare	52	$57,558	26
Gasoline stations	5	5.1	1.58×Too few to compare	15	$28,933	—
Specialty trade contractors	5	5.1	0.33×Too few to compare	29	$45,655	34
Ambulatory health care services	4	4.1	0.20×Too few to compare	24	$47,417	33
Grocery and convenience stores	4	4.1	1.38×Too few to compare	86	$18,802	5
Lessors of real estate	4	4.1	0.33×Too few to compare	12	$75,583	64
Limited-service restaurants	4	4.1	0.51×Too few to compare	49	$17,306	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	4	4.1	0.61×Too few to compare	26	$25,538	72
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	3	3.1	0.75×Too few to compare	8	$21,250	19

Rank places for an industry Open McCormick County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,788 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 $1,925 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in McCormick, South Carolina: $0.77 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $1,925; −79% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.77; US $1,995
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 53%; US 8.8%

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

Top buying agencies

Environmental Protection Agency$1,01253%
Department of State$91447%

Top recipients

HYDROGEOLOGIC, INC.$1,01253%
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES$91447%

Spending by fiscal year

175.3FY2017
-45.7FY2018
12.6KFY2019
13.7KFY2020
10.1KFY2021
5.1KFY2022
16.1KFY2023
7.5KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$1,01253%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$91447%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 McCormick, South Carolina, so they do not add up across cities.

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

See federal money in McCormick 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.

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

House

Sheri BiggsR-SC-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 0.0%

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.

McCormick County28100% of residents

Other cities and towns in McCormick 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
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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