29572 · Myrtle Beach North
Myrtle Beach North
The oldest, wealthiest and least dense of the three Myrtle Beach ZIP codes — ocean, quiet and an established street, all at once.
North of about 65th Avenue the city changes. 29572 is the oldest, wealthiest and least dense of Myrtle Beach’s three main ZIP codes — median age just under 60, median household income $85,247, median home value $427,400, and two people per household rather than a family of four. It is the only part of the Grand Strand that gives you the ocean, low density and an established, settled street all at once. If you have been looking at central Myrtle Beach and finding it too loud, this is usually the answer.
The neighborhoods, honestly described
- Grande Dunes — over 2,000 acres running from the ocean to the waterway, more than 2,300 households, and twenty-odd named villages inside it. Private Ocean Club, two golf courses, the marina. Note that it straddles two ZIP codes: the oceanside half is 29572, the half west of the waterway is 29579.
- Briarcliffe Acres — a separate incorporated town of 479 people in two thirds of a square mile, founded in the 1950s and named after Briarcliff Manor, New York. It runs its own beach access, its own ordinances and its own municipal court. Very few people realize it exists.
- The Dunes Club — single-family homes wrapped around the 1948 course, walking distance to the sand. The most established address on this end.
- Arcadian Shores — large lots, some close to an acre, three and four bedrooms, no gate and only an optional property-owners association. The sensible middle.
- Kingston Plantation — 145 gated acres with half a mile of beach and twelve acres of freshwater lakes; oceanfront towers plus villas and townhouses.
- Cabana section & Shore Drive — where the range is widest. Oceanfront cabanas have asked near $1.8 million on one side of the street and resort condos trade under $200,000 on the other.
Restaurant Row and thereabouts
- The Original Benjamin’s — more than 170 items on the buffet, and a genuine museum of handmade ship models including an eighteen-foot Queen Elizabeth II.
- Thoroughbreds Chophouse — six horse-themed rooms and two bars, with the menu reworked several times a year around what’s in season.
- Chestnut Hill — a dining room on the water where you watch turtles and egrets while you eat. Happy hour runs 4 to 7, daily.
- Hook & Barrel — sustainably sourced, and they’ll make the oyster stew in front of you at the bar.
- Chuck’s Steak House — since 1979, beef cut on the premises every day, open hearth.
- Bimini’s Oyster Bar — off Lake Arrowhead Road, no frills at all since 1985, steampots and beach music.
- Giant Crab — mostly worth it for Tommy, the twenty-five-foot crab out front that weighs over four tons and gets repainted by a local artist every off-season.
Two things to understand before you read a price here. First, any “median for 29572” is close to meaningless on its own, because the ZIP contains million-dollar Grande Dunes houses and $169,000 Shore Drive condos in the same number — always ask for the split. Second, you will see a vacancy rate near 58% if you look it up. That isn’t decline; it is second homes and seasonal owners, and it is the reason the place is so quiet in February. The market right now favors you: listings have more than doubled year on year and homes are taking around 130 days to sell against a county median near 80. One cost people miss — dues vary enormously inside Grande Dunes, from under $200 a month in some villages to thousands at the oceanfront. Ask for the exact figure on the exact unit before you fall in love with it.
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