Best PlacesCades, SC Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Cades, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Cades ranks 48,269th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. The schools pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on affordable childcare.
The best neighborhoods in Cades
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Cades' strengths and weaknesses
Where Cades ranks high
- Cheap childcare$581 a month, better than 80% of towns
- Short commute22.5 minutes each way, better than 77% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 71% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 65% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 90 pleasant days a year, better than 60% of towns
Where Cades ranks low
- School gradeD−, better than only 3% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 11% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Cades
A household needs to earn about $31,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cades home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $52,764, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Cades' effective rate of 0.78%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Cades
Cades runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Cades.
Who works in Cades, and how
Work in Cades centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 93%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Cades
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Cades.
What the weather is like in Cades, month by month
Cades sees roughly 90 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 57, with lows near 36. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 57° | 45° | 36° |
| April | 76° | 63° | 51° |
| July | 90° | 79° | 71° |
| October | 77° | 64° | 54° |
Flying in and out of Cades
The nearest airport, Florence Regional, is about 28 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Charleston AFB/International, about 63 miles away.
The best schools in and around Cades
Schools across Cades average a D−, better than 3% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Hemingway ElementaryD− · 11% proficient
Top middle schools
- C. E. Murray MiddleD · 20% proficient
- Hemingway Mb Lee MiddleF · 5% proficient
Top high schools
- Hemingway HighD · 20% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Cades school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Cades measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Cades against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Cades
Is Cades a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cades ranks 48,269th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on affordable childcare, short commutes, and state infrastructure, and lowest on the schools and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Cades expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $120,574. The overall cost of living runs about 19% below the national average. Set against a $52,764 median income, cost of living beats 21% of towns.
Is Cades safe?
Cades is safer than 4% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $914 per resident a year.
Compare Cades with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cades. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cades represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Cades detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Cades: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Cades: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Cades: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Cades: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Cades detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.