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SheetSC-KEOWEE-KEY-SC · Keowee Key, SC 3,307 pop · income 87th 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 Keowee Key
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Keowee Key on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Winnsboro · lowest
35,649
Winnsboro · lowest
35,649 median HH income
24.4% of the leader · rank #1
West Point · near
118,660
West Point · near
118,660 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #2
Lake of the P… · near
118,661
Lake of the P… · near
118,661 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #3
Keowee Key · this city
118,668
Keowee Key · this city
118,668 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #4
Hasbrouck Hei… · near
118,670
Hasbrouck Hei… · near
118,670 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #5
Prairiewood · near
118,681
Prairiewood · near
118,681 median HH income
81.4% of the leader · rank #6
Berwyn Heights · highest
145,833
Berwyn Heights · highest
145,833 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Keowee Key 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: 3,307.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Keowee Key lands in the 87th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
87th
percentile, household income
85th
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: Keowee Key, SC
South Carolina's Keowee Key is a small town, with 3,307 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $118,668 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.5%. Typical homes in Keowee Key are valued around $512,000, and the median resident age is 66.1 years. About 64.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 30.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,155 per month statewide. 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 Keowee Key'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Keowee Key, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Keowee Key?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Keowee Key?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Keowee Key?
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.
Within South Carolina, the closest population matches are Winnsboro (3,332 residents, $35,649 income); Liberty (3,337 residents, $42,077 income); Pickens (3,386 residents, $58,534 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Brillion, WI (3,307 residents); Claryville, KY (3,306 residents); Berwyn Heights, MD (3,306 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.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, South Carolina average
A-
City profile score · Keowee Key, SC
84/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
64.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A
$118,668
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Keowee Key profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 94/100 (A+) · 64.8%
Poverty rate: 89/100 (A) · 1.5%
Household income: 85/100 (A) · $118,668
Cost of living: 70/100 (B) · 93.7 index
How does Keowee Key compare to other US cities?
Keowee Key measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income87% higher than other cities
Home value85% pricier than other cities
Median rent46% 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 Keowee Key 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 Keowee Key near the bottom of South Carolina's cities
Among the 441 South Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Keowee Key ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Keowee Key only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#19 of 403
95th percentile in South Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 441
0th percentile in South Carolina
Median Home Value
#16 of 404
96th percentile in South Carolina
Poverty Rate
#391 of 439
11th percentile in South Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#15 of 441
97th 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
87th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Keowee Key's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$512,00015th percentilemore affordable than 15% 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
Keowee Key's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,563 of 15,516
More affordable than 25% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,910 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.3×, Keowee Key sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,563 of 15,516 and #8,910 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
$118,668Keowee Key, SC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Keowee Key, 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 Keowee Key, SC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)64.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)30.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,307
Median Income
$118,668
Median Home Value
$512,000
Median Age
66.1
Poverty Rate
1.5%
Labor force participation
30.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
64.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
64.7%
Carpool
1.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
24.9%
Other
7.6%
Based on 960 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 Keowee Key. 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 Keowee Key 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 Keowee Key sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Keowee Key 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, 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.