EdistoSC
1,801 people live in this town in South Carolina.
Is Edisto a good place to live?
Edisto’s best subject grade is a B+ for cost of living; its weakest is a D− for walkability. Edisto’s typical journey to work is 36 minutes, against 24 minutes in South Carolina’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Only 9 of South Carolina’s 262 towns score lower on walkability. Edisto's schools rank behind 89% of the state's. Edisto has 1 place on the National Register. Edisto has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Edisto has shrunk 20% from 2010 to 2020
2,559 counted in 2010 and 2,058 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Edisto grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within South Carolina), ordered by how far Edisto is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Edisto: who provides what
Edisto is unincorporated, so Orangeburg County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Edisto.
Residents of Edisto are less healthy than 95% of U.S. towns
In Edisto, nearly a fifth of adults smoke cigarettes. CDC measures, 32 in all: Edisto beats South Carolina on 3 and trails on 22. Two figures for adults here: 49% have high blood pressure, 35% worry about having enough food.
| Edisto | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 15% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 49% | 40% | 35% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 21% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 23% | 19% |
| What stands out | Edisto | SC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.4% | 8.6% |
| Fewer binge drinkers | 12.4% | 15.7% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 18.1% | 8.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Edisto has 0.5 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
25% of residents live below the poverty line in Edisto. Employers in Edisto shed 358 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 422. Also worth knowing: in Edisto, the middle household income is $47,000. The top destinations are Orangeburg (17%), Columbia (5%) and Wilkinson Heights (5%).
| Edisto | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 25% | 17% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $47,000 | $57,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.2% | 6.1% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Edisto’s year
The peak summer temperature in Edisto is 92°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High risk in Edisto, with hurricanes at the top
For Edisto, the natural-hazard score from FEMA is 63 of 100. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Edisto after 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2016. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 34% come from hurricanes and 26% from inland flooding.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Edisto sells for about $108K
The share of households in Edisto who live in a home they own: 57%. In Edisto, the median rent is $1,013 a month.
| Edisto | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 57% | 65% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,013 a month | $1,060 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0% of Edisto is conserved land
1.5 miles of trail. The concentration of trails for Edisto comes to 0.3 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Edisto
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Edisto
About 5 of every 100 Edisto residents are enrolled in college, about the same as South Carolina.
99% of working residents leave Edisto for work
Where Edisto’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Edisto’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Edisto.
| Town | SC rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edisto | — | — | B+ | — | D | D |
| Orangeburg | #163 | D− | C | D− | D | C− |
Edisto has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Edisto reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Edisto with a neighbor →
Questions about Edisto
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Edisto, SC a good place to live?
1,801 people live in this town in South Carolina.
Is Edisto, SC expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $72,000, 76% below the South Carolina typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.