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Blythewood, SC

Blythewood's Census ACS profile: residents, income, housing, and the joined public-record layers available for this place.

5,309
Residents
$105,583
Median income
$368,300
Median home
$1,155
Median rent (state)
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Place dossier plate

Sheet SC-BLYTHEWOOD-SC · Blythewood, SC 5,309 pop · income 81st pct

POP-TOWN · INC-HIGH · COL-BELOW · SAFE-UNK · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · HOME-MID · BOOK-UNK

  • POP-TOWN 5,309
  • INC-HIGH $105,583
  • COL-BELOW 93.7
  • SAFE-UNK Safety pending
  • RANK-TOP 81st
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Matthews
  • HOME-MID $368,300
  • BOOK-UNK Tracts pending

Nearest income peer: Matthews, NC ( $4 income $)

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 Blythewood

Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Blythewood on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.

median HH income

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Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-08

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Nationwide peers by population, income

Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Blythewood on ACS population and median household income . 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: 5,309.

4 peers

Similar household income

Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS median household income. This city: $105,583. Population peers are excluded.

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Blythewood - the verdict

Nationally, Blythewood sits in the 81st percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.

81st
percentile, household income
74th
percentile, home value
46th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Blythewood, SC

South Carolina's Blythewood is a small town, with 5,309 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Blythewood report a median income of $105,583 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Typical homes in Blythewood are valued around $368,300, and the median resident age is 44.0 years. About 44.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.

Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 212 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 32% from five years earlier.

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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,155 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $224 across South Carolina, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.7 out of 100 (High).

A decision-led reading path

Useful questions to ask of Blythewood'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 work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.

For Blythewood, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits. No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.

1. Work and mobility

What does the journey to work look like in Blythewood?

Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.

Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.

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Question 2

What does the education layer cover for Blythewood?

The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 44.3% 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.

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Question 3

How far does income reach against housing in Blythewood?

The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, 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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.

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Question 4

Which cities make useful reference points for Blythewood?

Within South Carolina, the closest population matches are Central (5,299 residents, $58,262 income); Hollywood (5,330 residents, $77,415 income); Chester (5,241 residents, $41,231 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Shaw Heights, CO (5,309 residents); Grandwood Park, IL (5,311 residents); Ione, CA (5,306 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.

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Why these stay compact

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.

Population change

Is Blythewood 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 +2,381 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +49.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 212 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
+49.1%
2025 estimate
7,233
2020 estimate
4,852

Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.

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Population

5,309 residents

Micro place (under 10k)

Median Household Income

$105,583 /yr

High income · poverty 3.1% (Low poverty)

Cost of Living Index (state)

93.7 (US=100)

Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, South Carolina average

City profile score · Blythewood, SC

77/100

4 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.

Household income B+
$105,583

Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.

Bachelor's+ share B+
44.3%

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.

Poverty rate B+
3.1%

Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.

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.

Violent crime N/A
N/A

No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).

Blythewood profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions) 4-axis radar comparing 1 series across Household income, Bachelor's+ share, Poverty rate, Cost of living. Household incomeBachelor's+ sharePoverty rateCost of living 77 B+
Blythewood profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)
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  • Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $105,583
  • Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.3%
  • Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
  • Cost of living: 70/100 (B) · 93.7 index

How does Blythewood compare to other US cities?

Blythewood measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.

Household income 81% higher than other cities
Home value 74% pricier than other cities
Median rent 46% pricier than other cities

"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.

How we calculate these percentiles & ranks

Each percentile compares Blythewood 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 Blythewood near the bottom of South Carolina's cities

Among the 441 South Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Blythewood ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Blythewood only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.

Median Household Income
#29 of 403
93rd percentile in South Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 441
0th percentile in South Carolina
Median Home Value
#37 of 404
91st percentile in South Carolina
Poverty Rate
#374 of 439
14th percentile in South Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#47 of 441
89th 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.

81stIncome percentile
Gauge source note

81st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.

How Blythewood's home value compares nationally

Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)

$368,300 26th percentile more affordable than 26% of 15,600 US cities

Show national distribution $0–$25,000: 5 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $25,000–$50,000: 54 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $50,000–$75,000: 352 US cities (2%). Below this entry. $75,000–$100,000: 1,086 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $100,000–$125,000: 1,516 US cities (10%). Below this entry. $125,000–$150,000: 1,170 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $150,000–$175,000: 1,278 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $175,000–$200,000: 1,229 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $200,000–$225,000: 1,035 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $225,000–$250,000: 976 US cities (6%). Below this entry. $250,000–$275,000: 754 US cities (5%). Below this entry. $275,000–$300,000: 712 US cities (5%). Below this entry. $300,000–$325,000: 521 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $325,000–$350,000: 526 US cities (3%). Below this entry. $350,000–$375,000: 465 US cities (3%). This entry sits in this band. $375,000–$400,000: 393 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $400,000–$425,000: 317 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $425,000–$450,000: 300 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $450,000–$475,000: 307 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $475,000–$500,000: 250 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $500,000–$525,000: 160 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $525,000–$550,000: 156 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $550,000–$575,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $575,000–$600,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $600,000–$625,000: 163 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $625,000–$650,000: 167 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $650,000–$675,000: 135 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $675,000–$700,000: 101 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $700,000–$725,000: 95 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $725,000–$750,000: 71 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $750,000–$775,000: 65 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $775,000–$800,000: 70 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $800,000–$825,000: 57 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $825,000–$850,000: 67 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $850,000–$875,000: 60 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $875,000–$900,000: 58 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $900,000–$925,000: 47 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $925,000–$950,000: 37 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $950,000–$975,000: 31 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $975,000–$1,000,000: 470 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $1,000,000–$1,025,000: 0 US cities (0%). Above this entry. Blythewood $0 $1,025,000 every US city, bucketed by value

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

Blythewood's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×

ACS median home value divided by median household income.

Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,924 of 15,516
More affordable than 42% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,201 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)

At 3.5×, Blythewood sits in the moderate band: national rank #8,924 of 15,516 and #7,201 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000). Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.

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

$105,583 Blythewood, SC median household income (Census ACS)

Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Household income distribution - Blythewood, SC Blythewood, SC's median household income ($105,583) against the U.S. national quintile-share pattern. The Lorenz curve and quintile bars are national context, not Blythewood, SC-specific shares. $ Household Income Distribution Blythewood, SC median $105,583/yr, vs. U.S. national quintile pattern QUINTILE SHARE OF AGGREGATE INCOME Lowest 20% 3.4% Second 20% 9.2% Middle 20% 15.1% Fourth 20% 23.2% Top 20% 49.1% LORENZ CURVE cumulative income vs. population 100% 0% 100% pop. 0%
Blythewood, 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 Blythewood, SC.

Key socioeconomic indicators

Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+) 44.3%

Census ACS S1501, educational attainment

Poverty rate (households below FPL) 3.1%

Census ACS S1701, poverty status

Labor force participation (adults 16+) 63.5%

Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force

Population
5,309
Median Income
$105,583
Median Home Value
$368,300
Median Age
44.0
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
63.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.3%

Schools

Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city

Population Change

PEP vintage

Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025

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4,000 residents5,000 residents6,000 residents7,000 residents8,000 residents 202020212022202320242025 4,852 residents 7,233 residents ▲ +49.1%
Blythewood's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.
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Period Population
2020 4,852 residents
2021 5,316 residents
2022 5,814 residents
2023 6,254 residents
2024 6,720 residents
2025 7,233 residents

Housing Supply

BPS source

Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized

📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
212
housing units authorized
Single-Family
212
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
39.9
permits per 1,000 residents

5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)

Year Total
2019 161
2020 186
2021 213
2022 184
2023 176
2024 212

Permit volume increased 32% from 2019 to 2024.

Commute Patterns

Commute source

How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023

Drive Alone
71.8%
Carpool
2.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
25.4%

Based on 2,718 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 Blythewood. 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 Blythewood 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 Blythewood sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.

How Blythewood 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.

City Population Median Household Income
Blythewood (this city) 5,309 $105,583
Central 5,299 $58,262
Hollywood 5,330 $77,415
Chester 5,241 $41,231
NCES CCD Census BPS 2024
Primary sources on this page

Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, 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.

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