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Saluda County, SC

People
Population19,131B01003
Population, 2020 census18,862P1
Median age42.6B01002
Under 1821.9%B01001
65 and over20.6%B01001
Households7,670B11001
Foreign born7.3%B05002
Money
Median household income$51,009B19013
Median family income$66,842B19113
Per capita income$30,409B19301
Poverty rate18.7%B17001
Unemployment rate3.2%B23025
Civilian labor force8,755B23025
Mean commute (minutes)28.5B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher20.4%B15003
Housing
Housing units9,543B25001
Owner-occupied78.7%B25003
Renters21.3%B25003
Median home value$146,500B25077
Median gross rent$851B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic57.1%B03002
Black21.2%B03002
Hispanic or Latino17.1%B03002
Asian0.4%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.0%B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the state: median household income here is 74% of South Carolina's ($69,324); poverty 18.7% against 14.1%; 0.4% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 9601: 3,011Census Tract 9602.01: 4,408Census Tract 9602.02: 4,114Census Tract 9603.01: 2,701Census Tract 9603.02: 1,937Census Tract 9604: 2,960SaludaRidge SpringMonettaWardZIP 29138: 77 nonprofits, $22,776,012ZIP 29006: 49 nonprofits, $2,295,484ZIP 29166: 7 nonprofits, $39,475Population (ACS 2020-2024)up to 2,7012,701 to 2,9602,960 to 3,0113,011 to 4,114over 4,114nonprofits (circle size: how many)

Click an area for its page. Circles are FURP records at their ZIP code's center point, sized by how many. Download this map's areas with their census figures: CSV (center points) · GeoJSON (outlines), ready for Datawrapper, Mapshaper or Google My Maps. Outlines: Census TIGER/Line 2026, simplified.

Places in the county

FURP records in Saluda County, SC

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits133$25,110,971 revenue (latest return)SALUDA COUNTY NURSING HOME BOARD SALUDA NURSING CENTER ($20,791,894)
Nonprofit contractors7$2,540,537 paid by nonprofitsLEXINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT 3 ($971,692)
Political committees1S C CITIZENS FOR DAVID DUKE
Form 5500 plan sponsors1617 plansSAMUEL F. WHEELER, DMD, PA (2)
Open Payments recipients20$38,261 industry paymentsRALPH N RILEY ($5,828)
Food recall firms23 recallsPalmetto Gourmet Foods Inc. (2)
Patent and trademark owners1625 patents and marksTitan Farms, LLC (3)
Federal award recipients653$62,943,312 federal awardsSALUDA COUNTY WATER & SEWER ($14,036,465)
State business registrations25RUBIO'S I. I. A SERVICES LLC

Cross-reference: 133 nonprofits for 19,131 residents is 69.5 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $25,110,971 is $1,313 per resident, 6.4% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1Dayna BledsoeADMINISTRATORSALUDA COUNTY NURSING HOME BOARD SALUDA NURSING CENTER$155,51020243.0x
2MR JAMES MACKHIGHEST COMPENSATED EMPLOYEESALUDA COUNTY NURSING HOME BOARD SALUDA NURSING CENTER$130,10220212.6x
3KEITH A PAUL NHAADMINISTRATORSALUDA COUNTY NURSING HOME BOARD SALUDA NURSING CENTER$123,20120192.4x
4DAYNE Y BLEDSOEADMINISTRATORSALUDA COUNTY NURSING HOME BOARD SALUDA NURSING CENTER$119,41820232.3x
5ZACHARY H MATTHEWSHEAD MASTERW WYMAN KING ACADEMY$67,75220241.3x
6DENNIS J GIBSONASSISTANT HEADMASTERW WYMAN KING ACADEMY$65,77220241.3x
7MARK CASTOPresidentMARK CASTO MINISTRIES$54,00020201.1x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $51,009.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

Nonprofit contractors: biggest by paid by nonprofits

Political committees

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

Open Payments recipients: biggest by industry payments

Food recall firms: biggest by recalls

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

All 6 tracts

Every tract with its figures is in the CSV and GeoJSON downloads.

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 9602.014,408$44,13022.0%45.0
Census Tract 9602.024,114$44,26428.1%35.7
Census Tract 96013,011$52,88019.7%40.2
Census Tract 96042,960$55,45821.7%40.6
Census Tract 9603.012,701$70,9865.4%51.6
Census Tract 9603.021,937$79,1674.0%55.0

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0