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Place dossier plate
SheetSC-GEORGETOWN-SC · Georgetown, SC 8,511 pop · income 32nd pct
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 Georgetown
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Georgetown on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Potsdam · lowest
32,061
Potsdam · lowest
32,061 median HH income
20.5% of the leader · rank #1
Jacinto City · near
57,703
Jacinto City · near
57,703 median HH income
36.9% of the leader · rank #2
Georgetown · this city
57,704
Georgetown · this city
57,704 median HH income
36.9% of the leader · rank #3
Alton · near
57,708
Alton · near
57,708 median HH income
36.9% of the leader · rank #4
Williamsburg · near
57,708
Williamsburg · near
57,708 median HH income
36.9% of the leader · rank #5
Berwick · near
57,708
Berwick · near
57,708 median HH income
36.9% of the leader · rank #6
Minnetrista · highest
156,346
Minnetrista · highest
156,346 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 Georgetown 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: 8,511.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Georgetown - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Georgetown places in the 32nd percentile for household income and the 5th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
32nd
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
46th
percentile, median rent
5th
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: Georgetown, SC
8,511 people live in Georgetown, South Carolina - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Georgetown brings in $57,704 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.6%. Georgetown's housing stock carries a median value of $158,600, and the median resident age is 49.2 years. 28.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 51.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 66 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Active). Georgetown's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 4454.3 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in South Carolina run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, South Carolina scores 93.7 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,155 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts South Carolina's average monthly utility costs around $224 (state average). 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 Georgetown'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 schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Georgetown, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Georgetown?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 28.6% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Georgetown?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.6%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Georgetown?
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 74.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Georgetown?
Within South Carolina, the closest population matches are Sangaree (8,517 residents, $77,939 income); York (8,697 residents, $47,315 income); Lancaster (8,738 residents, $43,234 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Murillo, TX (8,511 residents); Dunn, NC (8,512 residents); Minnetrista, MN (8,509 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Georgetown?
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 4454.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 95% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3604.2
Violent rate
850.1
Total reported rate
4454.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Georgetown 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 +483 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 66 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
+5.8%
2025 estimate
8,869
2020 estimate
8,386
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 9.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
93.7 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, South Carolina average
F
City profile score · Georgetown, SC
38/100
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 C
28.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$57,704
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
850 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Georgetown profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 70/100 (B) · 93.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.6%
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.6%
Household income: 31/100 (F) · $57,704
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 850 /100k
Where Georgetown sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Georgetown'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 - Georgetown highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Georgetown, SC (this city): home $158,600, crime 4,454/100k
Dunn, NC : home $178,900, crime 6,012/100k
Minnetrista, MN : home $624,600, crime 388/100k
Hondo, TX : home $215,800, crime 1,878/100k
York, SC : home $161,000, crime 3,790/100k
Lancaster, SC : home $226,300, crime 7,243/100k
Travelers Rest, SC : home $281,400, crime 2,751/100k
Seneca, SC : home $223,100, crime 2,339/100k
How does Georgetown compare to other US cities?
Where Georgetown sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income32% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent46% pricier than other cities
Safety5% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at South Carolina, Georgetown ranks #87 of 127 South Carolina cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Georgetown 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 Georgetown near the bottom of South Carolina's cities
Among the 441 South Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Georgetown ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Georgetown only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#157 of 403
61st percentile in South Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 441
0th percentile in South Carolina
Median Home Value
#201 of 404
50th percentile in South Carolina
Poverty Rate
#265 of 439
40th percentile in South Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#114 of 441
74th 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
32nd percentile nationally for median household income · 5th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Georgetown's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Georgetown'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 Georgetown's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$158,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Georgetown's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,304 of 15,516
More affordable than 66% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,626 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Georgetown sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,304 of 15,516 and #4,626 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
$57,704Georgetown, SC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Georgetown, 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 Georgetown, SC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,511
Median Income
$57,704
Median Home Value
$158,600
Median Age
49.2
Poverty Rate
9.6%
Labor force participation
51.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4454.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
850.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3604.2
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Georgetown's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,386 residents
2021
8,381 residents
2022
8,557 residents
2023
8,733 residents
2024
8,854 residents
2025
8,869 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Active
Total Permits (2024)
66
housing units authorized
Single-Family
66
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
42
0
42
$3.8M
2021
120
0
120
$13.4M
2022
76
0
76
$8.5M
2023
89
21
68
$15.7M
2024
66
66
0
$19.4M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.0%
Carpool
14.2%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
3.5%
Work from Home
4.5%
Other
3.7%
Based on 3,786 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 Georgetown. 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 Georgetown 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 Georgetown sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Georgetown 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.