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How Goose Creek's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Goose Creek?
Your $100,000 in Goose Creek has the same purchasing power as $94,153 in the average US city. You'd need $5,847 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
See a side-by-side breakdown of cost of living, housing, and salaries.
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Sorted by affordability — most affordable first.
Within 10 points of Goose Creek's cost index of 106, sorted by closest match.
So why do people move to Goose Creek? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly paychecks come in above the us average and jobs are easy to find right now, plus 2 more things worth knowing. The detail on each one is below.
The typical household in Goose Creek pulls in $84,041 — comfortably above the US median. Combined with the cost of living here, the income-to-expense ratio works out better than a quick look at either number in isolation would suggest.
Unemployment in Goose Creek is running about 3.4% — below the typical US baseline of around 4%. That usually translates to a job market where employers compete for workers more than the other way around, which is the better side of that equation to be on if you're the one moving.
Reported crime in Goose Creek comes in around 2,006 per 100,000 — under the national baseline of about 3,500. Worth digging into specific neighborhoods before settling on one, but the city-level picture is on the safer side.
Average AQI in Goose Creek comes in around 42, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Reasons are pulled from Goose Creek's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Around 23 feet (7 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Goose Creek's altitude shows up in daily life.
Officially, Atlantic hurricane season runs June 1 through November 30, but most of the action lands between mid-August and mid-October. For Goose Creek, that's when to keep half an eye on the National Hurricane Center forecast cone — and when an actual evacuation plan is worth having in the drawer if you're in a low-lying or coastal neighborhood.
Middle of the pack. Goose Creek comes in around 2,006 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Goose Creek's index of 106 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Goose Creek's Walk Score is 1/100, firmly in the car-required tier. The layout assumes you'll drive to the grocery store, drive to work, drive everywhere.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $74,347 to live in Goose Creek the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Goose Creek runs about $1,507/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.