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SheetSC-HARDEEVILLE-SC · Hardeeville, SC 9,293 pop · income 60th 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 Hardeeville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hardeeville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lancaster · lowest
43,234
Lancaster · lowest
43,234 median HH income
37.1% of the leader · rank #1
Harahan · near
78,222
Harahan · near
78,222 median HH income
67.2% of the leader · rank #2
Rosedale · near
78,226
Rosedale · near
78,226 median HH income
67.2% of the leader · rank #3
Hardeeville · this city
78,233
Hardeeville · this city
78,233 median HH income
67.2% of the leader · rank #4
Byron · near
78,235
Byron · near
78,235 median HH income
67.2% of the leader · rank #5
Tunnelton · near
78,241
Tunnelton · near
78,241 median HH income
67.2% of the leader · rank #6
Leonia · highest
116,429
Leonia · highest
116,429 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 Hardeeville 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: 9,293.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hardeeville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Hardeeville lands in the 60th percentile for household income and the 41st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
60th
percentile, household income
83rd
percentile, home value
46th
percentile, median rent
41st
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: Hardeeville, SC
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 9,293 residents in Hardeeville, a small town within South Carolina. Households in Hardeeville report a median income of $78,233 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.4%. Typical homes in Hardeeville are valued around $467,500, and the median resident age is 61.4 years. 45.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 43.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 1,345 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 170% from five years earlier. Hardeeville reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1666.7 in FBI UCR data, below 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: the state registers 93.7 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,155 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts South Carolina's average monthly utility costs around $224 (state average). 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 Hardeeville'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 population change to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hardeeville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count.
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
Which cities make useful reference points for Hardeeville?
Within South Carolina, the closest population matches are Laurens (9,307 residents, $55,207 income); Lugoff (9,475 residents, $61,316 income); Litchfield Beach (9,544 residents, $74,451 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Riverdale, UT (9,294 residents); Bridgeport, WV (9,292 residents); Haiku-Pauwela, HI (9,290 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.
Is Hardeeville 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 +8,695 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +112.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,345 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in Hardeeville?
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 68.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Hardeeville?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 45.6% 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.
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 Hardeeville?
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 1666.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 27% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1506.6
Violent rate
160.1
Total reported rate
1666.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Hardeeville?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.4%, 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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$78,233
Home value
$467,500
Value / income
6.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 5.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
93.7 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, South Carolina average
C+
City profile score · Hardeeville, SC
64/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A-
45.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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.
Poverty rate C+
5.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C
$78,233
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C
160 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Hardeeville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 80/100 (A-) · 45.6%
Cost of living: 70/100 (B) · 93.7 index
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.4%
Household income: 58/100 (C) · $78,233
Violent crime: 56/100 (C) · 160 /100k
Where Hardeeville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hardeeville'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 - Hardeeville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Hardeeville, SC (this city): home $467,500, crime 1,667/100k
Riverdale, UT : home $370,300, crime 4,875/100k
Bridgeport, WV : home $276,700, crime 1,596/100k
Gibsonville, NC : home $262,400, crime 1,102/100k
Quakertown, PA : home $253,200, crime 1,378/100k
Leonia, NJ : home $634,500, crime 515/100k
Laurens, SC : home $139,800, crime 3,930/100k
Seneca, SC : home $223,100, crime 2,339/100k
Lancaster, SC : home $226,300, crime 7,243/100k
York, SC : home $161,000, crime 3,790/100k
How does Hardeeville compare to other US cities?
Where Hardeeville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income60% higher than other cities
Home value83% pricier than other cities
Median rent46% pricier than other cities
Safety41% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to South Carolina alone, Hardeeville ranks #28 of 127 South Carolina cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Hardeeville 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 Hardeeville near the bottom of South Carolina's cities
Among the 441 South Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hardeeville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hardeeville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#71 of 403
82nd percentile in South Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 441
0th percentile in South Carolina
Median Home Value
#22 of 404
95th percentile in South Carolina
Poverty Rate
#341 of 439
22nd percentile in South Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#41 of 441
91st 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
60th percentile nationally for median household income · 41st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hardeeville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hardeeville'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 Hardeeville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$467,50017th percentilemore affordable than 17% 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
Hardeeville's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,081 of 15,516
More affordable than 9% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,452 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 6.0×, Hardeeville sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,081 of 15,516 and #10,452 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$78,233Hardeeville, SC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hardeeville, 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 Hardeeville, SC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)45.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)43.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,293
Median Income
$78,233
Median Home Value
$467,500
Median Age
61.4
Poverty Rate
5.4%
Labor force participation
43.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
45.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1666.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
160.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1506.6
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hardeeville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,764 residents
2021
8,883 residents
2022
10,313 residents
2023
12,077 residents
2024
14,179 residents
2025
16,459 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,345
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,345
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
144.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
499
499
0
$113.7M
2020
613
613
0
$137.8M
2021
800
800
0
$187.9M
2022
976
976
0
$221.6M
2023
1,175
1,175
0
$248.1M
2024
1,345
1,345
0
$308.9M
Permit volume increased 170% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.7%
Carpool
17.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
12.7%
Other
1.1%
Based on 3,629 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 Hardeeville. 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 Hardeeville 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 Hardeeville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hardeeville 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.