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SheetSC-BATESBURG-LEESVILLE-SC · Batesburg-Leesville, SC 4,935 pop · income 24th pct · 6 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Batesburg-Leesville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Batesburg-Leesville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cheraw · lowest
27,275
Cheraw · lowest
27,275 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #1
Bunker Hill · near
53,098
Bunker Hill · near
53,098 median HH income
50.3% of the leader · rank #2
Batesburg-Lee… · this city
53,102
Batesburg-Lee… · this city
53,102 median HH income
50.3% of the leader · rank #3
Smackover · near
53,105
Smackover · near
53,105 median HH income
50.3% of the leader · rank #4
Silver Springs · near
53,105
Silver Springs · near
53,105 median HH income
50.3% of the leader · rank #5
Mathews · near
53,108
Mathews · near
53,108 median HH income
50.3% of the leader · rank #6
Blythewood · highest
105,583
Blythewood · highest
105,583 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Batesburg-Leesville on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 4,935.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Batesburg-Leesville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Batesburg-Leesville lands in the 24th percentile for household income and the 10th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
24th
percentile, household income
21st
percentile, home value
46th
percentile, median rent
10th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Batesburg-Leesville, SC
4,935 people live in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Batesburg-Leesville brings in $53,102 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 14.2%. Batesburg-Leesville's housing stock carries a median value of $130,500, and the median resident age is 40.4 years. About 17.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 54.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 12 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 71% from five years earlier. Batesburg-Leesville's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3541.2 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in South Carolina run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts South Carolina at 93.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,155 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $224 across South Carolina, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 70.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Batesburg-Leesville's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility to population change to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Batesburg-Leesville, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Batesburg-Leesville?
Within South Carolina, the closest population matches are Abbeville (4,863 residents, $38,983 income); Cheraw (5,024 residents, $27,275 income); Chester (5,241 residents, $41,231 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sparks, TX (4,936 residents); Massac, KY (4,937 residents); Hampden, ME (4,937 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What does the education layer cover for Batesburg-Leesville?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 17.8% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Batesburg-Leesville?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3541.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 55% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What can 6 Census tracts reveal inside Batesburg-Leesville?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Batesburg-Leesville?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
Household income
$53,102
Home value
$130,500
Value / income
2.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Batesburg-Leesville?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
4.1%
Drive alone
77.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,056 workers age 16+.
Is Batesburg-Leesville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +87 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 12 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+1.7%
2025 estimate
5,346
2020 estimate
5,259
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, South Carolina average
F
City profile score · Batesburg-Leesville, SC
30/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living B
93.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$53,102
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
772 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Batesburg-Leesville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 70/100 (B) · 93.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 17.8%
Household income: 24/100 (F) · $53,102
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.2%
Violent crime: 3/100 (F) · 772 /100k
Where Batesburg-Leesville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Batesburg-Leesville's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Batesburg-Leesville highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Batesburg-Leesville, SC (this city): home $130,500, crime 3,541/100k
Hampden, ME : home $270,100, crime 484/100k
Gibraltar, MI : home $212,300, crime 765/100k
Abbeville, SC : home $108,500, crime 1,686/100k
Cheraw, SC : home $113,400, crime 8,447/100k
Chester, SC : home $106,400, crime 4,835/100k
Barnwell, SC : home $137,300, crime 4,589/100k
Central, SC : home $228,500, crime 1,311/100k
How does Batesburg-Leesville compare to other US cities?
Batesburg-Leesville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income24% higher than other cities
Home value21% pricier than other cities
Median rent46% pricier than other cities
Safety10% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just South Carolina and the picture shifts: Batesburg-Leesville ranks #70 of 127 South Carolina cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Batesburg-Leesville against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to South Carolina only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
South Carolina-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Batesburg-Leesville near the bottom of South Carolina's cities
Among the 441 South Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Batesburg-Leesville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Batesburg-Leesville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#190 of 403
53rd percentile in South Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 441
0th percentile in South Carolina
Median Home Value
#240 of 404
41st percentile in South Carolina
Poverty Rate
#213 of 439
51st percentile in South Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#231 of 441
47th percentile in South Carolina
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within South Carolina only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
24th percentile nationally for median household income · 10th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Batesburg-Leesville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Batesburg-Leesville's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Batesburg-Leesville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$130,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 79% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,780 of 15,516
More affordable than 76% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,423 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5×, Batesburg-Leesville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,780 of 15,516 and #3,423 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$53,102Batesburg-Leesville, SC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Batesburg-Leesville, SC median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Batesburg-Leesville, SC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,935
Median Income
$53,102
Median Home Value
$130,500
Median Age
40.4
Poverty Rate
14.2%
Labor force participation
54.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3541.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
772.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2768.9
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Batesburg-Leesville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,259 residents
2021
5,273 residents
2022
5,281 residents
2023
5,319 residents
2024
5,343 residents
2025
5,346 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
12
housing units authorized
Single-Family
12
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
7
0
$0.8M
2020
11
11
0
$1.7M
2021
20
20
0
$2.3M
2022
15
15
0
$1.8M
2023
12
12
0
$1.4M
2024
12
12
0
$1.4M
Permit volume increased 71% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.4%
Carpool
11.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.8%
Work from Home
4.1%
Other
5.4%
Based on 2,056 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
South Carolina statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $224
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across South Carolina at $224 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are South Carolina statewide averages, not a meter reading for Batesburg-Leesville. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
South Carolina's BEA cost-of-living index is 93.7 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Batesburg-Leesville is $1,155/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to South Carolina statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a South Carolina statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Batesburg-Leesville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Batesburg-Leesville compares to similar-size South Carolina cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.