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The median home value in Sumter, SC is $207,039 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.13% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$207,039
Year-over-Year
+1.13%
Population
42,551
Sumter ranks #46 of 60 South Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 30.1% below the state's city median of $296,397. It sits in Sumter County, where the county-wide median is $204,805.
Median household income in Sumter is $55,592, so the typical home value is about 3.7× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Sumter police recorded a violent crime rate of 1,098 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 3,706 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Sumter, that value is $207,039. That's up 1.13% from a year earlier. It is about 30.1% below the typical South Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Sumter are more expensive than Sumter County as a whole, where the median is $204,805 — a difference of about 1.1%.
Median household income here is $55,592, so the typical home value is about 3.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Sumter police reported 1,098 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 42,551. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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