Fort LawnSC
A town of 1,009, settled in 1882. A typical home costs 3 years of the Charlotte metro’s $83K median household income.
Is Fort Lawn a good place to live?
Fort Lawn’s best subject grade is an A for cost of living; its weakest is a D for walkability. On walkability, just 19 of South Carolina’s 262 towns do worse. On civic life, just 1 of South Carolina’s 152 towns do worse. Fort Lawn has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Fort Lawn stand out
Where Fort Lawn beats most towns.
1,009 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Fort Lawn grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within South Carolina), ordered by how far Fort Lawn is from typical.
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Moving to Fort Lawn: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Fort Lawn, and how to reach them.
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 Fort Lawn.
Fort Lawn stands out in South Carolina and nationally, with fewer of its working residents who work locally
The average commute in Fort Lawn is 30 minutes. The top destinations are Rock Hill (23%), Charlotte (13%) and Lancaster (3%). For half of commuters, work is under 24 miles away. Its income of the median household stands at $60,000, close to South Carolina’s towns ($57,000) and below U.S. towns ($80,000).
| Fort Lawn | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 6.1% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 17% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $60,000 | $57,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Top of a low hazard risk in Fort Lawn: inland flooding
In Fort Lawn, the risk rating from FEMA is 31 of 100. 39% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 25%. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid in 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2024.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Fort Lawn has mild winters and hot summers
Summer afternoons peak near 91° in July, and January nights bottom out around 32°; snowfall runs to about 3 inches a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Zillow puts the typical Fort Lawn home at about $248K
Values fell 1.1% in the year to September 2026. Fort Lawn’s median rent stands at $1,355 a month, above both the South Carolina town median ($1,060 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). 70% of Fort Lawn households are owner-occupiers.
| Fort Lawn | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,355 a month | $1,060 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 70% | 65% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Health in Fort Lawn trails 61% of U.S. towns
For adults 18 to 64 in Fort Lawn, the share who have no health insurance is 12%. The town does better than the South Carolina average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 1. Among adults here, 13% have diabetes and 20% worry about having enough food.
| Fort Lawn | South Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 33% | 33% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 12% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 21% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Fort Lawn | SC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 7.5% | 8.6% |
| Fewer adults seeing a dentist | 57.7% | 63.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Crime reported in Fort Lawn
21 crimes were reported in Fort Lawn in 2025: 19 property and 2 violent. In a town this small, a few incidents move the numbers a lot, so rates aren't shown.
Fort Lawn is small, so we show counts rather than rates.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Everything we know about Fort Lawn
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Fort Lawn
About 1 of every 100 Fort Lawn residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across South Carolina.
99% of working residents leave Fort Lawn for work
Where Fort Lawn’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Fort Lawn
Town in South Carolina, United States
Fort Lawn is a town in eastern Chester County, South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, Fort Lawn had a population of 962.
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- Area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 545 ft
- ZIP code
- 29714
- Area code
- 803
Questions about Fort Lawn
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fort Lawn, SC expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.