Funeral services · Metro area · South Carolina
Funeral homes in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area
How the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 85 out of 100: High
Ranked #19 of 377 scored metro areas
#1 of 8 scored metro areas based in South Carolina
- Listings
- 23
- 3 chain locations (13%)
- Official establishments
- 15
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $26.4M
- On funerals · $166 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.1M
- 69% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.4
- 33% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 427,551
- +20.9% since 2020
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What this means
For funeral homes, the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area has a Groundwork market score of 85 (high): #19 of 377 scored metro areas and #1 of 8 scored metro areas based in South Carolina. That puts it in the top 10% of metro areas for funeral homes.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 23 funeral homes in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area. 3 of them (13%) are chain locations, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 1.4 for every 10,000 households, 33% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Household spending on funerals in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area comes to about $26.4M a year: $166 per household, 16% above the U.S. average. Spread across 23 funeral homes, that is $1.1M per home, 69% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
In 2023, official counts showed 15 businesses with payroll in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area classed as funeral homes and funeral services. That is one for every 10,585 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Population estimates show the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area grew 20.9% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area compares
The same measures for South Carolina and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area | South Carolina | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.4 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.1M | $509K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 10,585 | 7,730 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +20.9% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $166 | $142 | $143 |
| Median household income | $66,880 | $69,324 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 85 | 55 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 15
- Employees, 2023
- 136
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 233 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 39The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 427,551+20.9% since 2020
- Households
- 158,779
- Median age
- 47.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,133 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 338
- Median household income
- $66,880
- Average household income
- $87,740
- Median home value
- $287,700
- Jobs located here
- 142,324
- Daytime population
- 375,675Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every South Carolina market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in South Carolina for funeral homes, numbered among those based in South Carolina (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area marked.
Top metro areas in South Carolina
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC | 85 | 23 | 1.4 | $1.1M | +20.9% | #19 of 377 |
| 2Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC | 84 | 19 | 2.0 | $913K | +12.0% | #21 of 377 |
| 3Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC | 64 | 66 | 1.7 | $782K | +9.0% | #103 of 377 |
| 4Charleston-North Charleston, SC | 61 | 59 | 1.8 | $719K | +10.7% | #118 of 377 |
| Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | 58 | 184 | 1.7 | $707K | +10.1% | #132 of 377 |
| 5Columbia, SC | 44 | 82 | 2.4 | $522K | +6.0% | #221 of 377 |
| Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC | 43 | 62 | 2.7 | $538K | +4.7% | #229 of 377 |
| 6Spartanburg, SC | 37 | 52 | 3.6 | $385K | +14.3% | #271 of 377 |
| 7Sumter, SC | 30 | 12 | 2.9 | $510K | −0.3% | #311 of 377 |
| 8Florence, SC | 17 | 37 | 4.7 | $299K | +0.9% | #374 of 377 |
Other business types in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area?
There are 23 funeral homes on map listings in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area as of September 2026. 3 of them (13%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 15 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area spend on funerals?
About $26.4M a year, or $166 per household. That is 16% above the U.S. average (an index of 116, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 23 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $1.1M per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 158,779 households in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area has 1.4 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 33% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $1.1M, 69% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area would have about 39, against 23 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 10,585 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area at 427,551 people in 2025, up 20.9% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 158,779 households. Median household income in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area is $66,880, 17% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area scores 85 for funeral homes (high), #19 of 377 scored metro areas.
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