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Geographic Features
North Myrtle Beach is a small coastal city in South Carolina with miles of white sandy beaches along the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Grand Strand, a string of beach towns and barrier islands that stretch from Little River, North Carolina to Georgetown, South Carolina. The town is quite busy in the summer due to the high influx of tourists.
Beautiful weather is one of the main reasons so many people choose to live and vacation in North Myrtle Beach. The climate features fairly mild winters, warm summers, and an average of 215 sunny days per year. Living along the Atlantic Ocean does mean that there will be an occasional threat from a hurricane.
North Myrtle Beach boasts a large and varying array of activities that keep everyone happily engaged. Pristine beaches provide plentiful opportunities to participate in popular water sports including boating, kayaking, jet skiing, fishing, surfing, and parasailing. The area's various parks and gardens provide a lush backdrop for family picnics and relaxing walks. In addition, North Myrtle Beach is known for having some of the best restaurants in the area. Locals enjoy an array of food specialties at every budget including local seafood and the area's famous BBQ.
Price Range
North Myrtle Beach has 18,300 homes and apartments. Area homes have a median price of $252,442.
Price Range:
- $0-$100,000 9.61%
- $100,001-$200,000 25.00%
- $200,001-$398,000 44.44%
- $398,001-$598,000 13.30%
- $598,001-$797,000 5.46%
- $797,001-$997,000 1.32%
- $997,001-$1,495,000 0.72%
- $1,495,001-$1,993,000 0.00%
- $1,993,000 0.15%
Size of Homes
- Studio 1.08%
- 1 Bedroom 10.55%
- 2 Bedrooms 41.54%
- 3 Bedrooms 35.76%
- 4 Bedrooms 9.42%
- 5+ Bedrooms 1.65%
Year Homes were built
- 1995 to 2010 21.98%
- 1970 to 1994 65.19%
- 1940 to 1969 12.37%
- 1939 or earlier 0.46%
Area History and Culture
North Myrtle Beach was established in 1968 from four existing municipalities north of Myrtle Beach. It is a popular tourist center among the Grand Strand towns of South Carolina. Visitors and residents enjoy the temperate weather, miles of pristine sandy beaches, and a relaxed lifestyle.
North Myrtle Beach's historic roots begin with the Waccamaw and Winyah tribes calling this place home. Legend speculates that throughout the 18th century, pirates, including the infamous Blackbeard, frequented area shores. The isolated shores offered the perfect seclusion for hiding treasure; people continue to look for buried riches along the inlet.
The region remained essentially unchanged until Franklin Burroughs claimed 80,000 acres and envisioned creating a popular getaway destination at Myrtle Beach. His company built the Conway & Seashore Railroad in 1900 to bring coastal timber to inland customers. After his death his sons built the first seaside hotel, which opened in 1901. Local growth continued as visitors fell in love with the area's beachy charm.
Daily Life
Living in North Myrtle Beach offers residences a relaxing coastal way of life. While the town is quite busy in the summer due to the high influx of tourists, after the season is over North Myrtle Beach transforms into a much quieter community. There is never a lot of daily traffic and many people even forgo driving to work and take a short taxi ride to the city center.
North Myrtle Beach offers a large and varying array of activities that keep everyone happily engaged. Pristine beaches provide plentiful opportunities to participate in popular water sports including boating, kayaking, jet skiing, fishing, surfing, and parasailing. The area's various parks and gardens provide a lush backdrop for family picnics and relaxing walks. In addition, North Myrtle Beach is known for having some of the best restaurants in the area. Locals enjoy an array of food specialties at every budget including local seafood and the area's famous BBQ.
Golf
Many people refer to the Myrtle Beach area as the "Golf Capital of the World" because of its 120 golf courses and the record 4.2 million rounds played. World-class golf course architects including Tom Fazio, Pete Dye, the late Robert Trent Jones Sr., and many others have designed courses. There are even courses designed by pros like John Daly, Arnold Palmers, and Jack Nicklaus. Some of the notable golf courses and resorts include:
- Arcadian Shores Golf Club
- Arrowhead Country Club
- Barefoot Resort and Golf Club
- Burning Ridge Golf Course
- Grande Dunes Golf Resort
- River Oaks Golf Plantation
- Whispering Pines Golf Course
Recreation and Sports
North Myrtle Beach's sunny weather and close proximity to the Atlantic make it an idea location for abundant recreation and sports enjoyment. The ocean shores feature an endless array of sporting options including boating, fishing, surfing, kayaking, jet skiing, windsurfing, and parasailing. Locals and tourists enjoy the abundant number of world class golf courses. Biking, tennis, and horseback riding are also very popular past times.
Just a short drive south to Myrtle Beach will afford additional activities such as watching a Myrtle Beach Pelicans baseball games. They are a Carolina League baseball team and an Atlanta Braves farm franchise.
The Myrtle Beach Speedway showcases NASCAR-sanctioned stock car racing. This .538 mile, semi-banked, asphalt-paved oval track has been the training ground for some of NASCAR's popular stars like Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Night Life
North Myrtle Beach is home to many exciting theatres and nightlife options. Venues provide electrifying entertainment and fun for the entire family. Barefoot Landing has many of the popular venues. The House of Blues draws internationally known musicians and is one of the areas largest venues. Other popular venues for music include the Palace Theatre, the Alabama Theatre, Calvin Gilmore's Carolina Opry, and Legends in Concert.
Beach Shag is the official dance of South Carolina and was created by teens in Myrtle Beach during the 1930's. People flock to the Ocean Drive Shag Club to dance late into the evening to classic R&B tunes.
There are a multitude of nightclubs in Myrtle Beach, most of which are located at Broadway at the Beach's nightclub district Celebrity Square. It features New Orleans-style boulevard and has 10 clubs perfect for dancing all night long, singing karaoke, or enjoying a relaxing beer.
Festivals and Events
The City of North Myrtle Beach hosts an array of annual events and festivals including a St. Patrick's Day Parade, Easter Egg Hunt, 9-11 Candle Light Vigil, Howl-o-Scream Halloween Celebration, and Christmas Tree Lighting and Parade.
The Irish Italian Internal Festival celebrates different cultures every September. This event brings approximately 20,000 people and features two stages of live entertainment, art and craft vendors, street performers, and a local restaurant food competition. Festival goers can even try to win the spaghetti sauce competition.
Every summer North Myrtle Beach hosts a free summer concert series in McLean Park. You can bring a dinner picnic to enjoy an evening listening to live music with family and friends.
Head south to Myrtle Beach for even more festivals and events. Spring Bike Week and Bike Rally draws so many people that it is the largest single motorcycle and Harley rally in the Carolinas. The Boardwalk features events for Oktoberfest, St Patrick's Day, and has free summer concerts every Tuesday and Saturday night. The Sun Fun Festival is the summertime kickoff for South Carolina's Grand Strand and a beginning of the Sun Fun Summer of Celebration, which runs during the summer from June through September. The Sun Fun Festival includes four days of live entertainment, air shows, professional sand sculpture contest, parade, pageants, sporting events, kids fair, and much, much more.
Parks
The City of North Myrtle Beach offers a variety of parks where you can play a game of baseball or enjoy a picnic with friends and family. J. Bryan Floyd Recreation Center is a 20-acre park that has four athletic fields, tennis courts, a 1/4 mile paved trail, roller hockey rink, four basketball courts (one is even an indoor court), and a recreation center with two playgrounds, a concession stand, press box for games, restrooms, and twelve outdoor picnic tables. Cherry Grove Park and Boat Ramp provides a double boat ramp, which gives visitors access to both the marsh and ocean. City Park on the Atlantic Ocean provides a fun and relaxing oceanfront atmosphere that is perfect for walking on the beach and having a picnic. Hill Street Park is cozy and offers a playground, picnic area and a tennis court. McLean Park is a ten-acre park that features a large lake, picnic tables, multiple grills, a walking trail, a baseball field, two tennis courts, and a roller hockey rink. Yow Park is a one-acre park that features a basketball court, playground, restroom facilities and a picnic area.
Schools
North Myrtle Beach's public schools are part of the Horry County School District, which is rated 96.5% higher than other South Carolina schools and 2.3% higher than the national average. This district has a total of $35,218 students and average 15 children per classroom and 11.3 students per teacher. Horry County spends $4995 per student compared to the national average of $5,678.
Horry County School District's recent honors include:
- Met 92% of Adequate Yearly Progress objectives under No Child Left Behind.
- 47% percent more district students participated in AP courses and took AP exams in 2009.
- The District's performance on the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS) is higher than the state in 23 out of 24 tests. The percentage of students scoring at the Exemplary level exceeded the state average in all subjects at all grade levels.
- North Myrtle Beach Primary School was named an Exemplar School for improving discipline, school climate through the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Initiative.
North Myrtle Beach High School was created following integration of Wampee and Chestnut High Schools. North Myrtle Beach High School offers the following sports: baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. The football and basketball teams' home field and court are known as "The Reservation".
Neighborhoods
North Myrtle Beach consists of the communities Cherry Grove, Crescent Beach, Ocean Drive, and Windy Hill. Cherry Grove is the largest of these neighborhoods and features the Cherry Grove Fishing Pier. This popular landmark was built in the 1950's and remains to be a great place for fishing and enjoying breathtaking views of the Atlantic and North Myrtle Beach. Windy Hill is home to Barefoot Landing, a perfect place for shopping, getting a bite to eat, and enjoying live entertainment.
Type of Homes
- Single-Family Detached 34.98%
- Attached Homes 2.21%
- Small Apartment complex 10.99%
- Large Apartment complex 41.94%
- Mobile Homes 9.15%
- Other 0.73%
Geographic Features
North Myrtle Beach is a small coastal city in South Carolina with miles of white sandy beaches along the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Grand Strand, a string of beach towns and barrier islands that stretch from Little River, North Carolina to Georgetown, South Carolina. The town is quite busy in the summer due to the high influx of tourists.
Beautiful weather is one of the main reasons so many people choose to live and vacation in North Myrtle Beach. The climate features fairly mild winters, warm summers, and an average of 215 sunny days per year. Living along the Atlantic Ocean does mean that there will be an occasional threat from a hurricane.
North Myrtle Beach boasts a large and varying array of activities that keep everyone happily engaged. Pristine beaches provide plentiful opportunities to participate in popular water sports including boating, kayaking, jet skiing, fishing, surfing, and parasailing. The area's various parks and gardens provide a lush backdrop for family picnics and relaxing walks. In addition, North Myrtle Beach is known for having some of the best restaurants in the area. Locals enjoy an array of food specialties at every budget including local seafood and the area's famous BBQ.
Price Range
North Myrtle Beach has 18,300 homes and apartments. Area homes have a median price of $252,442.
Price Range:
- $0-$100,000 9.61%
- $100,001-$200,000 25.00%
- $200,001-$398,000 44.44%
- $398,001-$598,000 13.30%
- $598,001-$797,000 5.46%
- $797,001-$997,000 1.32%
- $997,001-$1,495,000 0.72%
- $1,495,001-$1,993,000 0.00%
- $1,993,000 0.15%
Size of Homes
- Studio 1.08%
- 1 Bedroom 10.55%
- 2 Bedrooms 41.54%
- 3 Bedrooms 35.76%
- 4 Bedrooms 9.42%
- 5+ Bedrooms 1.65%
Year Homes were built
- 1995 to 2010 21.98%
- 1970 to 1994 65.19%
- 1940 to 1969 12.37%
- 1939 or earlier 0.46%
Area History and Culture
North Myrtle Beach was established in 1968 from four existing municipalities north of Myrtle Beach. It is a popular tourist center among the Grand Strand towns of South Carolina. Visitors and residents enjoy the temperate weather, miles of pristine sandy beaches, and a relaxed lifestyle.
North Myrtle Beach's historic roots begin with the Waccamaw and Winyah tribes calling this place home. Legend speculates that throughout the 18th century, pirates, including the infamous Blackbeard, frequented area shores. The isolated shores offered the perfect seclusion for hiding treasure; people continue to look for buried riches along the inlet.
The region remained essentially unchanged until Franklin Burroughs claimed 80,000 acres and envisioned creating a popular getaway destination at Myrtle Beach. His company built the Conway & Seashore Railroad in 1900 to bring coastal timber to inland customers. After his death his sons built the first seaside hotel, which opened in 1901. Local growth continued as visitors fell in love with the area's beachy charm.
Daily Life
Living in North Myrtle Beach offers residences a relaxing coastal way of life. While the town is quite busy in the summer due to the high influx of tourists, after the season is over North Myrtle Beach transforms into a much quieter community. There is never a lot of daily traffic and many people even forgo driving to work and take a short taxi ride to the city center.
North Myrtle Beach offers a large and varying array of activities that keep everyone happily engaged. Pristine beaches provide plentiful opportunities to participate in popular water sports including boating, kayaking, jet skiing, fishing, surfing, and parasailing. The area's various parks and gardens provide a lush backdrop for family picnics and relaxing walks. In addition, North Myrtle Beach is known for having some of the best restaurants in the area. Locals enjoy an array of food specialties at every budget including local seafood and the area's famous BBQ.
Golf
Many people refer to the Myrtle Beach area as the "Golf Capital of the World" because of its 120 golf courses and the record 4.2 million rounds played. World-class golf course architects including Tom Fazio, Pete Dye, the late Robert Trent Jones Sr., and many others have designed courses. There are even courses designed by pros like John Daly, Arnold Palmers, and Jack Nicklaus. Some of the notable golf courses and resorts include:
- Arcadian Shores Golf Club
- Arrowhead Country Club
- Barefoot Resort and Golf Club
- Burning Ridge Golf Course
- Grande Dunes Golf Resort
- River Oaks Golf Plantation
- Whispering Pines Golf Course
Recreation and Sports
North Myrtle Beach's sunny weather and close proximity to the Atlantic make it an idea location for abundant recreation and sports enjoyment. The ocean shores feature an endless array of sporting options including boating, fishing, surfing, kayaking, jet skiing, windsurfing, and parasailing. Locals and tourists enjoy the abundant number of world class golf courses. Biking, tennis, and horseback riding are also very popular past times.
Just a short drive south to Myrtle Beach will afford additional activities such as watching a Myrtle Beach Pelicans baseball games. They are a Carolina League baseball team and an Atlanta Braves farm franchise.
The Myrtle Beach Speedway showcases NASCAR-sanctioned stock car racing. This .538 mile, semi-banked, asphalt-paved oval track has been the training ground for some of NASCAR's popular stars like Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Night Life
North Myrtle Beach is home to many exciting theatres and nightlife options. Venues provide electrifying entertainment and fun for the entire family. Barefoot Landing has many of the popular venues. The House of Blues draws internationally known musicians and is one of the areas largest venues. Other popular venues for music include the Palace Theatre, the Alabama Theatre, Calvin Gilmore's Carolina Opry, and Legends in Concert.
Beach Shag is the official dance of South Carolina and was created by teens in Myrtle Beach during the 1930's. People flock to the Ocean Drive Shag Club to dance late into the evening to classic R&B tunes.
There are a multitude of nightclubs in Myrtle Beach, most of which are located at Broadway at the Beach's nightclub district Celebrity Square. It features New Orleans-style boulevard and has 10 clubs perfect for dancing all night long, singing karaoke, or enjoying a relaxing beer.
Festivals and Events
The City of North Myrtle Beach hosts an array of annual events and festivals including a St. Patrick's Day Parade, Easter Egg Hunt, 9-11 Candle Light Vigil, Howl-o-Scream Halloween Celebration, and Christmas Tree Lighting and Parade.
The Irish Italian Internal Festival celebrates different cultures every September. This event brings approximately 20,000 people and features two stages of live entertainment, art and craft vendors, street performers, and a local restaurant food competition. Festival goers can even try to win the spaghetti sauce competition.
Every summer North Myrtle Beach hosts a free summer concert series in McLean Park. You can bring a dinner picnic to enjoy an evening listening to live music with family and friends.
Head south to Myrtle Beach for even more festivals and events. Spring Bike Week and Bike Rally draws so many people that it is the largest single motorcycle and Harley rally in the Carolinas. The Boardwalk features events for Oktoberfest, St Patrick's Day, and has free summer concerts every Tuesday and Saturday night. The Sun Fun Festival is the summertime kickoff for South Carolina's Grand Strand and a beginning of the Sun Fun Summer of Celebration, which runs during the summer from June through September. The Sun Fun Festival includes four days of live entertainment, air shows, professional sand sculpture contest, parade, pageants, sporting events, kids fair, and much, much more.
Parks
The City of North Myrtle Beach offers a variety of parks where you can play a game of baseball or enjoy a picnic with friends and family. J. Bryan Floyd Recreation Center is a 20-acre park that has four athletic fields, tennis courts, a 1/4 mile paved trail, roller hockey rink, four basketball courts (one is even an indoor court), and a recreation center with two playgrounds, a concession stand, press box for games, restrooms, and twelve outdoor picnic tables. Cherry Grove Park and Boat Ramp provides a double boat ramp, which gives visitors access to both the marsh and ocean. City Park on the Atlantic Ocean provides a fun and relaxing oceanfront atmosphere that is perfect for walking on the beach and having a picnic. Hill Street Park is cozy and offers a playground, picnic area and a tennis court. McLean Park is a ten-acre park that features a large lake, picnic tables, multiple grills, a walking trail, a baseball field, two tennis courts, and a roller hockey rink. Yow Park is a one-acre park that features a basketball court, playground, restroom facilities and a picnic area.
Schools
North Myrtle Beach's public schools are part of the Horry County School District, which is rated 96.5% higher than other South Carolina schools and 2.3% higher than the national average. This district has a total of $35,218 students and average 15 children per classroom and 11.3 students per teacher. Horry County spends $4995 per student compared to the national average of $5,678.
Horry County School District's recent honors include:
- Met 92% of Adequate Yearly Progress objectives under No Child Left Behind.
- 47% percent more district students participated in AP courses and took AP exams in 2009.
- The District's performance on the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS) is higher than the state in 23 out of 24 tests. The percentage of students scoring at the Exemplary level exceeded the state average in all subjects at all grade levels.
- North Myrtle Beach Primary School was named an Exemplar School for improving discipline, school climate through the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Initiative.
North Myrtle Beach High School was created following integration of Wampee and Chestnut High Schools. North Myrtle Beach High School offers the following sports: baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. The football and basketball teams' home field and court are known as "The Reservation".
Neighborhoods
North Myrtle Beach consists of the communities Cherry Grove, Crescent Beach, Ocean Drive, and Windy Hill. Cherry Grove is the largest of these neighborhoods and features the Cherry Grove Fishing Pier. This popular landmark was built in the 1950's and remains to be a great place for fishing and enjoying breathtaking views of the Atlantic and North Myrtle Beach. Windy Hill is home to Barefoot Landing, a perfect place for shopping, getting a bite to eat, and enjoying live entertainment.
Type of Homes
- Single-Family Detached 34.98%
- Attached Homes 2.21%
- Small Apartment complex 10.99%
- Large Apartment complex 41.94%
- Mobile Homes 9.15%
- Other 0.73%
