City safety & data profile
Goose CreekSC
Goose Creek, SC is a 41K-resident city in Berkeley County with a median household income of $88,178.
Berkeley County, South Carolina. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Goose Creek, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Goose Creek has a population larger than 74% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $306,000, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 41K
- Population (place)
- Top 26%
- By size
- $88,178
- Median income (place)
- $306,000
- Median home (place)
- 6.5%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Goose Creek
Goose Creek posts a median household income higher than 58% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the Goose Creek area.
- Top 42%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near Goose Creek
Composite score · Goose Creek, SC
51/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Goose Creek in context: the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Goose Creek income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$88,178 Top 42% higher than 58% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-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
Population ranking: SC
Ranked by headcount across the 50 SC places Areazine tracks with both population and income data. Tooltip carries the income rank.
- Columbia
Columbia, SC
142,416 residents
- Charleston
Charleston, SC
132,609 residents
- North Charleston
North Charleston, SC
108,304 residents
- Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, SC
81,317 residents
- Rock Hill
Rock Hill, SC
71,548 residents
- Greenville
Greenville, SC
64,579 residents
- Summerville 48,848
Summerville, SC
48,848 residents
- Sumter 40,816
Sumter, SC
40,816 residents
- Goose Creek 40,633
Goose Creek, SC
40,633 residents
- Hilton Head Island 40,512
Hilton Head Island, SC
40,512 residents
What this shows By headcount, Columbia ranks #1 here -- income honors go to Five Forks.
Highest median incomes in SC
Median household income across 50 tracked SC places. Hover a bar for its population rank.
- Five Forks
Five Forks, SC
$141,786 median
- Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, SC
$124,755 median
- Fort Mill
Fort Mill, SC
$121,823 median
- Bluffton
Bluffton, SC
$111,281 median
- Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head Island, SC
$94,657 median
- Charleston
Charleston, SC
$92,414 median
- Goose Creek
Goose Creek, SC
$88,178 median
- Hanahan
Hanahan, SC
$87,984 median
- Lexington
Lexington, SC
$87,126 median
- North Augusta
North Augusta, SC
$86,092 median
What this shows Five Forks leads this pool on median income; Columbia is the population leader instead.
The quick read
Reading Goose Creek, SC beyond the headline numbers
Goose Creek sits inside Berkeley County, South Carolina, at roughly 32.98°N, -80.03°W. Population 40,633, $88,178 median household income. Median home value $306,000, median rent $1,690. Poverty rate 6.5%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around Goose Creek (nearest 3 mi away), 3.3/5 avg rating, 4 with an ER. Climate: 66.5°F annual average, 52.7" precipitation.
Goose Creek's labor market runs tight: 2.3% unemployment, in the lowest quarter of reporting cities.
Goose Creek's median age is 34 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Among the CDC measures on this page, coronary heart disease departs furthest from its peer median: 4.6% in Goose Creek, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,757 cities reporting that measure.
Hardship is low by national standards: 6.5% of Goose Creek, SC residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.
Public transit carries 0% of Goose Creek workers, a smaller share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Median rent in Goose Creek, SC runs $1,690/month, above the midpoint for reporting cities -- worth weighing against the income figures on this page.
The median home in Goose Creek costs roughly 3.5 times median household income, below the midpoint for reporting cities, so ownership remains reachable on a typical local wage.
29.7% of Goose Creek adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
13.3% of Goose Creek workers are remote, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Goose Creek 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.
A Decade of Change 2013–2024
County-level trend (Berkeley County): Goose Creek'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.
The Economic Picture
The clearest outlier in Goose Creek's numbers is poverty rate: 6.5%, which is 48% below what's typical across the tracked-city set. Median rent also diverges: $1,690/mo, 10% above average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 6.5% -48% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 2.3% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 29.7% |
| Work From Home | 13.3% |
| Public Transit | 0% |
Population Snapshot
Community Health 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Nearest Hospitals 5 within 25 mi
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 20241.0% above national average
Metro area: Charleston-North Charleston, SC (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
Flood Insurance Claims History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelSince 2016, NFIP has paid out $5.4M across 249 flood insurance claims filed in Berkeley County.
Hurricane Matthew alone generated 107 of those claims, the county's largest named flood event in this record.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Goose Creek?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Goose Creek right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet SC-GOOSE-CREEK · Goose Creek
Goose Creek: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Goose Creek; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse South Carolina state hubs · Methodology
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Common Questions 9
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Similar poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Goose Creek, 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 (6.5% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside SC ($88,178 here).
Compare Goose Creek 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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Using Goose Creek'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 Goose Creek area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Income and poverty rate tell different stories, two places sharing a median can still diverge sharply on poverty.
- Compare Goose Creek against South Carolina peers on any ranking lens. Explore South Carolina
Place-level figures for population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) come from U.S. Census ACS; health data is CDC PLACES; hospital counts cover facilities in and around the city. Any county-level trend is labeled as such.
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 (Berkeley 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 2026-09-16.