While South Carolina's Myrtle Beach is not known for being a post-pandemic hotspot like Austin or Tampa, new findings from Placer.ai show that movers have kept flocking to the beachside community, adjacent regions and are buoying the local real estate market.

According to the software firm's report, the Palmetto State is experiencing the second-highest rate of net migration in the country, after Idaho, while the Grand Strand, Myrtle Beach, and Charleston regions are taking in movers en masse.

Placer.ai found that between Q1 2020 and Q2 2024, net migration to Myrtle Beach—defined as the number of people who moved in minus the number who left—increased by 12.9%, while the Charleston and North Charleston areas saw an increase of 4.7%.

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