Census-designated place · Sumter County, South Carolina

Stateburg, South Carolina

Stateburg is a census-designated place in Sumter County, South Carolina, part of the Sumter, SC metro area. It has 2,027 residents. Stateburg, South Carolina has a quality-of-life score of 23 out of 100 (low), ranking #12,085 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within South Carolina it ranks #134 of 268 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), effective property tax rate (low) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on homicide rate (high), violent crime rate (high) and reading scores (low).

23Low

Quality-of-life score: #12,085 of 15,651 cities and towns
South Carolina: #134 of 268 in SC
Population: 2,027 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 435.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 4569010

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety2#15,304/15,637
Economy33#10,535/15,631
Housing37#9,395/14,977
Health37#9,844/15,609
Healthcare38#9,669/15,650
Environment54#7,088/15,453
Education29#11,138/15,649
Infrastructure48#8,135/15,650
Community46#8,413/15,651
Leisure & amenities10#14,094/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Job growth · high3.0%
94/100South Carolina 0.7%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataSumter County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.52%
86/100South Carolina 0.49%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Comfortable days · high31.0%
83/100South Carolina 31.6%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSumter County value
Mammography screening · high52.0%
81/100South Carolina 51.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value
Loneliness · low33.0%
80/100South Carolina 32.7%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low3.3%
79/100South Carolina 11.2%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Homicide rate · high13.4 /100k
3/100South Carolina 8.4 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSumter County value
Violent crime rate · high652 /100k
3/100South Carolina 388 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationSumter County value
Reading scores · low2.57
3/100South Carolina 2.93United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value
Math scores · low2.60
9/100South Carolina 2.92United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value
Premature death · high12,724 /100k
10/100South Carolina 10,517 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value
Life expectancy · low72.7 yrs
10/100South Carolina 75.1 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSumter County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,813 (2015-2019) → 2,027 (2020-2024)
+12%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
23.4% (2015-2019) → 100.0% (2020-2024)
+77 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
53.2% (2015-2019) → 34.7% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.9× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+60%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 11.1% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.298 (2015-2019) → 0.418 (2020-2024)
+40%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Stateburg, South Carolina improved on 0 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 4. 5 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.

Declined4

Bachelor's+−18 points53.2% → 34.7%
Household income−23%$86,371 → $66,481
Inequality+0.1200.298 → 0.418
Price / income+1.2×1.9× → 3.1×

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Stateburg, South Carolina between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.9 min2015-2019	21.0 min2020-2024	−9.0 min	Within the margin of error	98%
Bachelor's degree or higher	53.2%2015-2019	34.7%2020-2024	−18 points	Declined	0%
Broadband subscriptions	88.5%2015-2019	93.8%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Effective property tax rate	0.58%2015-2019	0.52%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	26%
High school diploma or higher	96.6%2015-2019	92.2%2020-2024	−4.4 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+1.2×	Declined	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.2982015-2019	0.4182020-2024	+0.120	Declined	3%
Median household income	$86,3712015-2019	$66,4812020-2024	−23%	Declined	1%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“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 Stateburg, South Carolina five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Stateburg, 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, Stateburg, South Carolina itself moved −17.2 points in standing on average over the same 8 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).

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Income

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

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Homes

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

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Getting to work

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

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Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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Pay in the Sumter, SC

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 Sumter County, the county holding most of Stateburg's residents.

Sumter County has 1,833 employer establishments, 176 for every 10,000 residents (0.71× the US rate of 248; 0.77× South Carolina's), with 29,449 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,071. The Census Bureau also counts 8,109 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,833; 8,109 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 176; US 248 · South Carolina 228
Paid employees: 29,449
Average annual pay: $44,071; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	146	14	0.67×Fewer than typical	2,418	$53,628	355
Restaurants and other eating places	134	12.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	3,317	$16,222	69
Specialty trade contractors	110	10.5	0.68×Fewer than typical	1,409	$65,294	552
Religious organizations	92	8.8	1.59×More than typical	661	$19,079	—
Limited-service restaurants	73	7	0.87×About typical	1,955	$16,034	42
Gasoline stations	60	5.7	1.77×More than typical	399	$23,321	4
Lessors of real estate	50	4.8	0.39×Fewer than typical	174	$43,667	548
Services to buildings and dwellings	50	4.8	0.71×Fewer than typical	385	$32,358	826
Full-service restaurants	49	4.7	0.61×Fewer than typical	1,270	$16,378	18
General merchandise stores	45	4.3	2.44×More than typical	849	$22,576	46
Building equipment contractors	42	4	0.67×Fewer than typical	747	$77,585	113
Offices of physicians	40	3.8	0.59×Fewer than typical	798	$77,318	39

Rank places for an industry Open Sumter County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 104,396 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

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

See federal money in Sumter 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.

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County

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

Sumter County26100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Sumter, SC20

Other cities and towns in Sumter 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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