City safety & data profile

BeaufortSC

Beaufort, SC is a 13K-resident city in Beaufort County with a median household income of $61,220.

Beaufort County, South Carolina. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Beaufort, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Beaufort has a population larger than 20% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $345,400, and 2 hospitals serving the surrounding area.

Data updated 2026-09-04

13K
Population (place)
Bottom 21%
By size
$61,220
Median income (place)
$345,400
Median home (place)
12.5%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Beaufort

Beaufort posts a median household income higher than 24% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 2 hospitals serve the Beaufort area.

Bottom 25%
by median income, US cities
2
hospitals in & near Beaufort

Where Beaufort income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$61,220 Bottom 24% higher than 24% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Beaufort $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. 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, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Largest cities in SC

Population among 50 SC places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Columbia is the largest SC city on this list; Five Forks leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in SC

Median household income among the same 50-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Five Forks posts the highest place-level median income in SC; Columbia is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Beaufort, SC beyond the headline numbers

Beaufort sits inside Beaufort County, South Carolina, at roughly 32.43°N, -80.67°W. Population 13,306, $61,220 median household income. Median home value $345,400, median rent $1,212. Poverty rate 12.5%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

2 hospitals in/around Beaufort, 4/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.

Poverty in Beaufort, SC stands at 12.5%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.

The median home in Beaufort costs around 5.6 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.

Only 8% of Beaufort workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.

Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 18.8% in Beaufort, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

Beaufort's median age is 32.2 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Beaufort from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)
13,306
Beaufort · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$61,220
-32% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$345,400
-16% vs avg
Median Age (place)
32.2
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Beaufort County): Beaufort's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024
Population
195K+18%
Median Income
$86,573+51%
Median Home Value
$455,600+65%
Poverty Rate
9.6%-23%
Unemployment
2.4%-70%

Economics

Economics indicators for Beaufort, SC
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$1,212/mo
Poverty Rate
12.5%
Unemployment 2.9%
Bachelor's Degree+ 39.6%
Work From Home 8%
Public Transit 0.2%

Population

White 64.8%
African American 26.2%
Asian 0.9%
Two or More Ethnicities 0.7%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

High Blood Pressure
34.4%
Short Sleep Duration
31.9%
Obesity
30.9%
Physical Inactivity
21.4%
Binge Drinking
18.8%
Frequent Mental Distress
16.2%
Lack of Health Insurance
13.1%
Frequent Physical Distress
12.8%
Diabetes
11.3%
Current Smoking
11.3%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 65.5%
Annual Checkup 79.2%

Other Measures

Current Asthma
9%
Coronary Heart Disease
6.2%
Stroke
3.6%

Hospitals 2 total

Rating Distribution
★★★★★
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1
★★★
0
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0
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0
Average Rating
4/5
Total Hospitals
2
With ER
1
BEAUFORT COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
BEAUFORT · Acute Care Hospitals · ER
★★★★☆

What alerts and safety updates affect Beaufort?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Beaufort right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet SC-BEAUFORT · Beaufort

Beaufort: 6 tagged alerts; lead category NWS weather alert.

  • VOL-LIGHT 6 on record
  • WX-LED 100% weather
  • DESK-MIX NOAA
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Detroit

Tagged alert mix: Beaufort

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 6 tagged notices on record for Beaufort.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: Detroit, MI (6 tagged · Δ0)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Beaufort; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse South Carolina state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (6 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

Detroit, MI 6 alerts Suffolk, VA 6 alerts Juneau, AK 6 alerts Dallas, TX 7 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 6

What is the population of Beaufort, SC? ▼
Beaufort, SC has a population of 13,306 people, located in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
What is the median household income in Beaufort? ▼
The median household income in Beaufort, SC is $61,220 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 12.5%.
What is the median home value in Beaufort? ▼
The median home value in Beaufort, SC is $345,400. Median rent is $1,212/month.
What are the top health concerns in Beaufort? ▼
The top health indicators in Beaufort include High Blood Pressure (34.4%), Short Sleep Duration (31.9%), Obesity (30.9%). Data from CDC PLACES.
How many hospitals are in Beaufort? ▼
Beaufort has 2 hospitals with an average rating of 4/5 stars. 1 have emergency departments.
What is the median age in Beaufort? ▼
The median age in Beaufort, SC is 32.2 years. 39.6% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Beaufort, both outside South Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside SC (12.5% here).

St. Petersburg, FL 12.5% Metairie, LA 12.5% Tyler, TX 12.5% Rapid City, SD 12.5%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside SC ($61,220 here).

Cullman, AL $61,224 Twin Falls, ID $61,205 Chino Valley, AZ $61,237 Lake Worth Beach, FL $61,200

Compare Beaufort with another city

Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.

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Nearby Cities 8

Port Royal, SC 12K Hilton Head, SC 37K Hilton Head Island, SC 41K Bluffton, SC 17K Wilmington Island, GA 15K Savannah, GA 148K Pooler, GA 23K Georgetown, GA 12K
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Using Beaufort's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Beaufort area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
  • Compare Beaufort against South Carolina peers on any ranking lens. Explore South Carolina

Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

Data Sources

All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Beaufort County) where that is the smallest published unit.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.