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

Stuckey Rental Market Overview

Stuckey is a 0.93-square-mile town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, chartered in 1953 and located along Hemingway Highway between the towns of Hemingway and Kingstree, the county seat. As of October 2026, this guide's research could not identify a single named apartment or multi-family rental community operating inside town limits, and no published median gross rent figure for Stuckey could be located -- the town's small population (roughly 189 to 200 residents, depending on the source) falls below the threshold where the Census Bureau's American Community Survey reliably publishes a place-level rent estimate. City-Data.com's 2024 employment data shows manufacturing as the town's dominant current employment sector by a wide margin, though this guide could not tie that figure to a specific, named, in-town employer.

Common Lease Terms in Stuckey

With no identified apartment community or leasing office to source a specific lease from, what follows is pieced together from housing-stock data, a direct jurisdiction check, and the town's own economic profile rather than a single property's own paperwork:

• DataUSA's 2023 American Community Survey estimate puts Stuckey's median household income at $31,786 -- well below South Carolina's statewide median household income of $72,350
• South Carolina's Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (S.C. Code Title 27, Chapter 40) supplies the default lease terms -- notice periods, entry rules, deposit handling -- for any Stuckey tenancy where the lease itself is silent
• Checked against the Census Bureau's public geocoder, both addresses tied to the town's own government -- 17 Cobra Drive and 3785 Hemingway Highway -- resolve cleanly inside the incorporated Town of Stuckey, despite both carrying a "Hemingway, SC" mailing city rather than "Stuckey, SC"
• City-Data.com's 2024 estimate puts the town's median house value at $107,196 and its poverty rate at 12.6% -- both figures well below South Carolina's statewide median house value of $299,500, though that same estimate's median resident age of 76.3 (against a statewide median of 40.7) is high enough that this guide treats it as a possible small-sample artifact rather than a confirmed demographic fact

Local Tenant Protections

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

• South Carolina law preempts local rent control statewide (S.C. Code §27-39-60) -- no South Carolina city or county, including Stuckey, may enact an ordinance regulating the rent charged on privately owned residential property
• The Town of Stuckey's own website covers council news, a community calendar, and town officials, but does not publish a zoning ordinance, business-license schedule, or municipal code of any kind, and the Municipal Association of South Carolina's own directory listing for the town lists no such document either -- this guide could not confirm either way whether one exists
• Both addresses tied to the town's own government carry a "Hemingway, SC" mailing city despite resolving cleanly inside Stuckey's own incorporated limits per the Census Bureau's public geocoder -- a mailing-label quirk worth knowing before assuming a "Hemingway, SC"-addressed property near this corridor falls outside Stuckey's own authority
• Stuckey's population has declined in every Census count on record, from 263 in 2000 to 200 in 2020, with a 2024 current-year estimate of roughly 189 showing that decline continuing rather than leveling off

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

Mandatory Fees at Stuckey Rentals

No fee schedule could be independently confirmed for a Stuckey rental, since this guide could not identify any leasing office or managed rental community operating inside town, as of October 2026.

• No national retail tenant (such as a Dollar General or Family Dollar) could be confirmed operating inside Stuckey's own town limits -- the nearest Family Dollar this guide identified carries a Johnsonville, SC address, a separate town
• No town-wide median gross rent, application fee, pet fee, or deposit amount for any specific Stuckey property is publicly disclosed anywhere this guide could find
• South Carolina law sets no statutory cap on application fees, pet fees, or administrative fees -- whatever a specific lease states is what governs

A town with no identified rental community isn't automatically a red flag -- but it does mean every fee, deposit amount, and lease term is worth confirming directly with the landlord, in writing, before signing anything.

A Declining Williamsburg County Town That Shares Its Name With a Roadside Chain It Has No Ties To

The U.S. Census Bureau's decennial counts show Stuckey declining in every count on record: 263 residents in 2000, down to 245 by 2010 (a 6.8% decline) and 200 by 2020 (an 18.4% decline in that decade alone), for a cumulative 24.0% loss over those two decades. City-Data.com's 2024 current-year estimate puts the town at roughly 189 -- a further decline rather than a plateau, bringing the cumulative loss since 2000 to about 28.1%. DataUSA's independent 2024 estimate of 190 residents is close enough to confirm the trend rather than contradict it. The town sits on a 0.93-square-mile footprint entirely consisting of land, chartered in 1953 and located along Hemingway Highway between the towns of Hemingway and Kingstree, the Williamsburg County seat.

A specific finding from this guide's own research concerns the town's name rather than its boundary. Stuckey's, the national roadside pecan-and-candy store chain recognizable from highway billboards across the Southeast, was founded by W.S. "Sylvester" Stuckey Sr. in Eastman, Georgia, in 1937 -- a company history entirely separate from, and predating, the Town of Stuckey, South Carolina's own 1953 charter in Williamsburg County. This guide's research found no documented connection between the two at all: no founding-family link, no franchise location, nothing beyond a shared surname-derived name. This is the same kind of coincidental naming overlap this guide has documented in Furman, SC, a town unconnected to Furman University despite the shared name.

Checked against the Census Bureau's public geocoder, both addresses this guide could tie to the town's own government -- 17 Cobra Drive, listed on the town's own officials directory, and 3785 Hemingway Highway, listed elsewhere as Town Hall -- resolve cleanly inside the incorporated Town of Stuckey, a genuinely clean jurisdiction result. The notable wrinkle is that both addresses carry a "Hemingway, SC" mailing city rather than "Stuckey, SC," a USPS delivery convention rather than a legal boundary, but one that could reasonably confuse a prospective tenant or business checking which town's rules apply at a specific address near this corridor. City-Data.com's 2024 employment-sector breakdown shows manufacturing as the town's dominant current employment sector (53.2% of employed residents), followed by retail trade (22.0%) -- a workforce profile this guide could not tie to any specific, named employer located inside Stuckey itself, which may reflect residents commuting to manufacturing jobs elsewhere in the county, though that could not be confirmed directly.

Common Issues Renters Face in Stuckey

These are the most frequent lease-related considerations identified for Stuckey, based on the research for this guide:

• No apartment or multi-family rental community, and no national retail tenant, could be confirmed operating inside Stuckey from the sources this guide checked, so a prospective renter should not assume the town has no housing options at all -- only that none could be independently verified as a managed property
• Both addresses tied to the town's own government carry a "Hemingway, SC" mailing city despite sitting inside Stuckey's own incorporated limits -- a reminder that a mailing address near this corridor doesn't by itself settle which town's authority applies to a specific property
• Whether Stuckey has its own zoning ordinance or business-license requirement could not be confirmed either way, since neither the town's own website nor the Municipal Association of South Carolina's directory publishes one
• Stuckey's population has declined in every Census count on record, and the most recent data (a 2024 estimate of roughly 189, down from 200 in 2020) shows that decline continuing rather than leveling off

Negotiating Your Lease in Stuckey

South Carolina is landlord-favorable with minimal statutory protections, and Stuckey's rental market has no identified apartment community or leasing office to benchmark a specific offer against.

• A full written lease, rather than a verbal or partial agreement, is especially worth requesting in a market like Stuckey's, where the counterparty is more likely an individual property owner than a company with a standard template already in place
• Comparing a specific quote against nearby Hemingway, Kingstree, or Greeleyville, all covered elsewhere on this site and all within or adjacent to Williamsburg County, can help gauge whether a Stuckey rent or fee fits regional norms
• Confirming a specific address's actual jurisdiction using the Census Bureau's free public geocoder is worth doing for any Stuckey-area property, particularly one carrying a "Hemingway, SC" mailing address near the town's own corridor -- this guide's own research found both of the town's government addresses resolve inside Stuckey despite that mailing label

A market with no identified rental community isn't automatically a red flag -- but with no comparison listing to check a quote against, confirming every fee, deposit amount, and lease term directly with the landlord, in writing, matters more here than in a market with visible competition.