Cost of Living in Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant's cost of living centers on a genuine housing-price premium -- sourcing this pass disagreed by tens of thousands of dollars, ranging roughly $767,550-$883,519 -- paired with South Carolina's real two-bracket income tax and elevated, coastal-risk-driven insurance costs.
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Learn moreHousing: a real, wide range, every reading well above the metro median
Redfin's June 2026 figure cited $883,519 (down 1.4% YoY); Houzeo's January 2026 figure cited $855,000; Zillow's average-home-value measure cited $767,550. One outlier April 2026 citation ($1,125,000) reads as a likely luxury-skewed monthly anomaly rather than a settled figure. Every plausible reading sits well above North Charleston's own $312,000-$320,000 range, built in this same dataset.
Rent runs a real premium over the wider metro too
RentCafe's 2026 figures cite a $2,264/month average across all units (down 0.99% YoY), ranging from $1,713 for a studio to $2,852 for a 3-bedroom -- meaningfully above North Charleston's $1,517 average cited elsewhere in this dataset.
South Carolina's real income tax and Mount Pleasant's 9% combined sales tax
South Carolina applies a real, two-bracket income tax under Act 110 (1.99% on the first $30,000 of SC taxable income, 5.21% above) -- not a no-income-tax state. Mount Pleasant's combined sales tax runs 9.0% (6% state plus local/special-district components), matching the wider Charleston County structure.
Key takeaways
- Mount Pleasant's home price sourcing ranged $767,550-$883,519 across sources this pass -- every reading well above North Charleston's $312,000-$320,000 range in this same dataset.
- Rent averages $2,264/month per RentCafe -- a real premium over North Charleston's $1,517 average.
- South Carolina's real 1.99%/5.21% two-bracket income tax applies; Mount Pleasant's combined sales tax is 9.0%.
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