Renting in Quinby? Here's What You Need to Know Before You Sign

Quinby Rental Market Overview

Quinby is a small Florence County town of 915 residents (2020 Census), and its rental market is correspondingly informal -- this guide could not identify a single apartment or multifamily community operating inside the town's own limits as of September 2026. National aggregators (Redfin, Homes.com, ApartmentGuide) return "Quinby, SC" apartment search results built around Charles Pointe Apartments, but that property's own listed address, 201 Millstone Rd, carries a Florence, SC 29505 mailing address, and checking it against the Census Bureau's public geocoder confirms it sits inside the City of Florence, not the Town of Quinby -- an aggregator mix-up rather than a real in-town community. "Quinby Estates," the name some listing sites attach to their Quinby results, is a single-family subdivision, not a managed apartment complex; every rental this guide found there was an individual house. Six single-family rentals this guide independently verified inside town limits show a wide price spread: 128 Dogwood Ln ($845/month), 124 Dogwood Ln ($899/month), 110 Quinby Cir ($1,000/month), 202 Magnolia Dr ($1,500/month), 218 Honeysuckle Ln ($1,750/month), and 237 Creek Dr ($2,300/month) -- a range reflecting very different property sizes and conditions, not a single landlord's posted rate schedule. Separately, city-data.com's Census-modeled estimate puts Quinby's town-wide median gross rent at $1,032/month as of 2024.

Common Lease Terms in Quinby

With no apartment community identified inside Quinby, and no single management office setting terms for multiple units, what follows is what can be pieced together from the individual rentals this guide found and from statewide default rules:

• Every confirmed in-town rental this guide identified is an individual single-family house -- 108 and 124 Dogwood Ln, 110 Quinby Cir, 202 Magnolia Dr, 218 Honeysuckle Ln, and 237 Creek Dr -- each leased by its own landlord rather than a managed community with a standardized unit-type schedule
• Advertised rents for these six houses ran from $845 to $2,300 a month, a spread wide enough that it reflects individual property size and condition rather than any single "market rate"
• Charles Pointe Apartments, the community most apartment-search sites surface for a "Quinby, SC" search, is not actually inside Quinby -- its own address resolves to Florence city via the Census Bureau's geocoder, so any lease terms quoted there fall under Florence's jurisdiction, not Quinby's
• For any rental actually inside Quinby town limits, South Carolina's Residential Landlord and Tenant Act supplies the default terms absent anything more specific negotiated in writing with the individual landlord

Local Tenant Protections

South Carolina law provides the baseline for tenant rights, but Quinby may have additional local ordinances that affect your lease.

• This guide checked Quinby's own published town code -- Administration, Building Code, Elections, Business License, and Garage & Yard Sales chapters are all posted at townofquinby.com -- and found no rental-registration or landlord-licensing ordinance specific to Quinby
• South Carolina law preempts local rent control statewide (S.C. Code §27-39-60) -- no South Carolina city or county, including Quinby, may enact an ordinance regulating the rent charged on privately owned residential property
• Checking Quinby Town Hall (611 E Ashby Rd) and six separate single-family rentals this guide identified (108 and 124 Dogwood Ln, 110 Quinby Cir, 202 Magnolia Dr, 218 Honeysuckle Ln, 237 Creek Dr) against the Census Bureau's public geocoder found every one resolves cleanly inside the incorporated Town of Quinby -- a cleaner result than Charles Pointe Apartments, the community most "Quinby, SC" apartment searches surface first, which the same geocoder places inside the City of Florence instead

For full South Carolina statewide tenant rights, see our South Carolina tenant rights guide.

Mandatory Fees at Quinby Rentals

No standardized fee schedule could be identified for a Quinby rental, since no managed apartment community operates inside town limits to publish one:

• Each of the six single-family rentals this guide identified inside town was advertised with a monthly rent figure only -- no published application fee, pet fee, or separate deposit amount accompanied any of the listings this guide checked
• Charles Pointe Apartments, the community that appears first in most "Quinby, SC" apartment searches, publishes its own fee structure, but it applies under Florence city jurisdiction, not Quinby's, since the property itself sits inside Florence
• South Carolina law sets no statutory cap on application fees, pet fees, or administrative fees for a private-market rental -- whatever a specific lease states with an individual landlord is what governs

A town with no confirmed apartment community isn't a red flag on its own -- Quinby is simply small enough that its rental stock is individual houses rather than managed complexes -- but it does mean there's no on-site leasing office publishing a fee schedule to check a specific landlord's terms against, so getting a written breakdown before signing matters more here than in a market with public comparables.

What's Shaping Quinby's Rental Market

Quinby's Census-reported population has moved in a narrow band for decades: a peak of 952 in 1980, a decline to 842 by 2000, a recovery to 932 in 2010, and a slight further dip to 915 in 2020 -- a real, if modest, 1.8% drop in the most recent decade, with city-data.com's 2024 ACS-modeled estimate putting the population at 895, suggesting the slide has continued rather than reversed. Against that backdrop, city-data.com's 2024 estimates show median household income at $69,510 (up from $52,639 in 2000), a poverty rate of 16.6%, and an April 2026 unemployment rate of 4.0% against South Carolina's 3.6% figure. The town's largest employment sectors among residents are other services (12.6%), health care and social assistance (12.4%), transportation and warehousing (11.6%), and accommodation and food services (11.6%) -- a workforce that leans heavily on jobs in neighboring Florence, which borders Quinby on the south and west and serves as the region's economic hub.

One thing sets Quinby apart from several other small Florence County towns this guide has researched: it still has a working, currently operating grocery store. KJ's Market, also known locally as Quinby IGA, sits at 900 E Ashby Rd -- confirmed inside town limits via the Census Bureau's geocoder -- open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Quinby was incorporated on July 7, 1967, and its town limits extend north to Black Creek, a tributary of the Pee Dee River, with Interstate 95 accessible about 3 miles away at Exit 169. Spaulding Heights, built in 1962, was one of the first brick-home subdivisions constructed for African American families in Florence County; the site is now Spaulding Heights Community Park, with a playground, a paved walking loop, and a pond. The town's own website also cites a Niche.com ranking naming Quinby the safest place to live in South Carolina and highlights its proximity to Francis Marion University and Florence-Darlington Technical College -- neither of which this guide independently re-verified, since ranking sites of this kind update from year to year.

Common Issues Renters Face in Quinby

These are the most notable considerations this guide's research turned up for anyone looking to rent in Quinby:

• No apartment community could be confirmed operating inside Quinby as of September 2026, so a prospective renter is dealing with an individual landlord and an individual house rather than an on-site leasing office and a standardized unit-type schedule
• Charles Pointe Apartments, the property most national apartment-search sites surface first for "Quinby, SC," is not actually inside Quinby -- its address resolves to Florence city via the Census Bureau's geocoder -- so confirming which municipality's rules actually apply to a specific listing is worth doing before assuming Quinby's town code covers it
• Quinby's population has continued a slow decline -- 932 in 2010, 915 in 2020, an estimated 895 by 2024 -- thinning the pool of comparable rentals available at any given time in a town this size
• The six single-family rentals this guide could independently verify inside town limits ranged from $845 to $2,300 a month, too wide and too small a sample to establish a reliable "going rate" for a specific property type

Negotiating Your Lease in Quinby

South Carolina is landlord-favorable with minimal statutory protections, and Quinby's lack of a managed apartment community means there is little standardized pricing to benchmark a specific offer against.

• Confirming which jurisdiction actually covers a specific address -- Quinby town, unincorporated Florence County, or Florence city -- is more attainable before signing than after, given this guide found a Quinby-searched property (Charles Pointe Apartments) that actually sits in Florence
• Comparing a quoted Quinby rent against nearby Florence listings is a reasonable way to gauge whether a figure is reasonable for the area, since Florence borders Quinby directly and publishes far more rental data than Quinby does on its own
• A written rent, deposit, and fee breakdown directly from an individual landlord is more attainable before applying than after signing, since none of the six in-town rentals this guide reviewed published a fee schedule the way a managed complex would

A town with no confirmed apartment community isn't a red flag on its own -- Quinby is simply a small town whose rental stock is individual houses -- but it does mean there's no public comparable to check a specific landlord's asking rent against, so getting any fee or term in writing before signing matters more here than in a market with an on-site leasing office.