Berea vs Five Forks

A side-by-side comparison of Berea and Five Forks: population, income, housing, and more.

Berea and Five Forks are places in South Carolina. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Five Forks has the higher population (19,093 vs 16,642 in Berea). Five Forks has the higher median household income ($140,668 vs $48,104 in Berea). Five Forks has the higher median home value ($424,600 vs $187,200 in Berea).

Population, income & housing

	Berea	Five Forks
Population	16,642	19,093
Median age	36.6 yrs	38.4 yrs
Median household income	$48,104	$140,668
Median home value	$187,200	$424,600
Median gross rent	$1,032	$2,139
Housing units	6,724	6,609
Homeownership rate	60.9%	88.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.2%	64.7%
Unemployment rate	6.7%	3.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Berea	Five Forks
Population	14,652 → 16,642 (+13.6%)	17,844 → 19,093 (+7.0%)
Median household income	$37,125 → $48,104 (+29.6%)	$114,049 → $140,668 (+23.3%)
Median home value	$114,900 → $187,200 (+62.9%)	$300,700 → $424,600 (+41.2%)
Median gross rent	$774 → $1,032 (+33.3%)	$1,635 → $2,139 (+30.8%)

Berea

Population

14,65216,642

Median household income

$37,125$48,104

Median home value

$114,900$187,200

Median gross rent

$774$1,032

Five Forks

Population

17,84419,093

Median household income

$114,049$140,668

Median home value

$300,700$424,600

Median gross rent

$1,635$2,139

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Berea	Five Forks
Under 5	8.4%	5.9%
5 to 17	15.4%	23.4%
18 to 24	10.2%	4.7%
25 to 34	13.3%	11.3%
35 to 44	12.7%	12.0%
45 to 54	11.8%	17.6%
55 to 64	11.5%	13.1%
65 to 74	10.5%	8.3%
75 and over	6.1%	3.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Berea	Five Forks
White (non-Hispanic)	40.5%	73.3%
Black or African American	20.8%	8.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.1%
Asian	1.3%	6.2%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	1.8%	2.2%
Two or more races	2.7%	2.9%
Hispanic or Latino	32.6%	6.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Berea	Five Forks
No high school diploma	23.7%	2.5%
High school graduate	29.2%	11.0%
Some college or associate's	28.9%	21.7%
Bachelor's degree	12.3%	40.9%
Graduate or professional degree	5.9%	23.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Berea	Five Forks
Drove alone	73.0%	77.7%
Carpooled	19.9%	6.1%
Public transit	0.7%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	1.2%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.4%	13.8%
Other means	0.9%	1.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Berea	Five Forks
1-unit, detached	61.7%	91.0%
1-unit, attached	2.8%	2.3%
2 to 4 units	9.9%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	16.0%	0.3%
20 or more units	2.8%	3.8%
Mobile home & other	6.8%	2.5%

Poverty & households

	Berea	Five Forks
Poverty rate	22.0%	2.1%
Average household size	2.61	2.96
Mean commute (minutes)	26	27
Median year structure built	1979	2003