Last updated October 5, 2026

The Oaks — Chapin, South Carolina.

The Oaks is a residential subdivision in unincorporated Lexington County. The mailing city is Chapin and the ZIP is 29036. That mailing address is not the Town of Chapin. Address points tagged The Oaks and Creekside @ The Oaks are all unincorporated, and the parcels in the strict The Oaks legal set sit in tax district 5. On the auditor's TY2025 millage schedule, code 5 is “District 5 and District 5 FW.” Code 5C is “District 5 - Town of Chapin.” The Oaks is not 5C.

The county master name is THE OAKS. Two polygons share that master: THE OAKS (NumberLots 55) and CREEKSIDE @ THE OAKS (NumberLots null). The restrictions index has no line titled THE OAKS. The GIS pair 9788 / 24 on the THE OAKS polygon is the same pair the index prints for Oaks of Lexington — a different Hunley Drive subdivision in Lexington 29072. Instruments were not opened. Oaks of Lexington, River Oaks, Oakbrook Landing Phase 1, and Oaks at Oakbrook Landing Phase 2 are other names. They are not this map.

The tax roll classifies twenty-one parcels in the strict set as lakefront improved and one as lakefront unimproved. The rest of the house parcels are residential improved (plus one rural improved). This guide states that split from the tax roll. It does not invent a frontage distance, and the legal lines in this set do not print “Lake Murray.”

The Patrick O'Connor Team publishes The Oaks information and updates.

About The Oaks

Do not shop The Oaks from one lot count. The fields do not match, and not every parcel is the lakefront type.

Subdivision-layer NumberLots: THE OAKS polygon 55. Creekside @ The Oaks NumberLots is null. Do not add them.
Address points tagged THE OAKS on October 5, 2026: 55 (Bent Oak Drive 44, Caro Lane 7, Bent Oak Court 4). All unincorporated, Chapin 29036. Feature type: residential 53, common area 1, accessory residential 1. Status: existing 55.
Address points tagged CREEKSIDE @ THE OAKS: 15, all Bent Oak Drive, all residential, all existing.
Parcels with legal starting “THE OAKS” and excluding OAKBROOK / CREEKSIDE strings: 52. All tax district 5. Maps on 001033.

Property types on the 52: 27 residential improved, 21 lakefront improved, 1 lakefront unimproved, 1 rural improved, and 2 subdivision common area. Year built on improved houses with a year greater than zero runs from 1999 through 2020 on the roll.

Thirty-one additional parcels say “THE OAKS AT OAKBROOK LANDING” or “OAKS @ OAKBROOK LANDING (CREEKSIDE @ THE OAKS).” They are related names. They are not folded into the 52. See the Oakbrook Landing guide for that family.

The Register of Deeds restrictions index, list marked 11/5/2025, has no THE OAKS line. It does list Oaks at Oakbrook Landing pairs (4712 / 203, 5302 / 73, 5311 / 66 & 68, 21055 / 814). Instruments were not opened.

Homes for Sale in The Oaks

As of October 5, 2026, this guide does not publish an active listing count or a list price. No portal snapshot was used. Brokerage marketing pages were not used as sources.

What the tax roll supports is a street map on Bent Oak Drive / Court and Caro Lane, a mixed lakefront and residential-improved class, two common-area parcels in the Oaks at Oakbrook Landing homeowners string, and a second Creekside @ The Oaks polygon with fifteen address points. Do not treat 213 Bent Oak Drive (common area) or 221A Bent Oak Drive (accessory residential) as separate house counts.

There is no team market-report URL for The Oaks yet. Ask for a fresh MLS pull before treating any count as live.

Market Data as of October 2026

All time-sensitive numbers live in this section. They are assessor sale rows, not a computed neighborhood average and not an MLS report. No median is published here.

309 Bent Oak Drive, Chapin, SC 29036. Assessor sale date July 10, 2026. Price $1,350,000. CAMA deed book 21232, page 4236. TMS 001033-01-023. Legal “THE OAKS LOT 9.” Year built 2000. Property type lakefront improved. Tax district 5.
313 Bent Oak Drive, Chapin, SC 29036. Assessor sale date June 18, 2026. Price $1,323,000. CAMA deed book 21230, page 0865. TMS 001033-01-024. Legal “THE OAKS LOT 10.” Year built 2003. Property type lakefront improved. Tax district 5.
324 Bent Oak Drive, Chapin, SC 29036. Assessor sale date July 24, 2025. Price $597,342. CAMA deed book 21178, page 1943. TMS 001033-01-059. Legal “THE OAKS LOT 47.” Year built 2001. Property type residential improved. Tax district 5.
418 Caro Lane, Chapin, SC 29036. Assessor sale date June 20, 2025. Price $629,000. CAMA deed book 21166, page 4448. TMS 001033-01-005. Legal “THE OAKS LOT 55.” Year built 2006. Property type residential improved. Tax district 5.
209 Bent Oak Drive, Chapin, SC 29036. Assessor sale date January 3, 2025. Price $548,000. CAMA deed book 21141, page 0496. TMS 001033-01-043. Legal “THE OAKS LOT 28.” Year built 2007. Property type residential improved. Tax district 5.
Scale, not a price: NumberLots on THE OAKS is 55, address points tagged THE OAKS are 55, and the strict legal set is 52. Lakefront improved is 21. These are different fields.
HOA dollars: Not in the county record used here.
Active portal listings: None confirmed for this page on October 5, 2026.

Sources: Lexington County address points, parcels, tax subdivisions, and municipalities, retrieved October 5, 2026; Register of Deeds restrictions index with page marks 11/5/2025; Lexington County Auditor TY2025 millage schedule. Sale dates are the parcel layer's SaleDate field. Deed images were not opened. These rows are not a median and not an MLS report.

Types of Homes

Public records support a street map and a property-type split. They do not support a menu of floor plans or a claim that every house fronts the water.

Residential improved: 27 parcels in the strict The Oaks legal set.
Lakefront improved: 21. Lakefront unimproved: 1 (Lot 18 / 345 Bent Oak Drive).
Rural improved: 1 (Lot 29 / 217 Bent Oak Drive).
Subdivision common area: 2 parcels.
Not a condo regime in the property types returned for this set.

Bedroom counts and living area are not published here. They were not taken from a listing site.

Neighborhood Amenities

The tax roll shows two common-area parcels. It does not publish a pool directory or a dues schedule.

TMS 001033-01-016. Owner Oaks at Oakbrook Landing Homeowners Asso (roll string truncated). Property type subdivision common area. Legal “THE OAKS BOAT ACCESS LOT.” Situs 273 Bent Oak Drive, Chapin, SC 29036.
TMS 001033-01-044. Owner Oaks at Oakbrook Landing Homeowners Asso. Property type subdivision common area. Legal “THE OAKS CLUB HOUSE & BOAT STORAGE.” Situs 213 Bent Oak Drive. Address point feature type CA.
Gate: not in this record.
Dues: not published in the county record used here.

If a seller's packet shows an assessment or a maintenance rule, the packet and the recorded covenants win over this page.

Shopping, Dining, and Recreation

The Oaks uses a Chapin 29036 mailing address in unincorporated Lexington County. This page does not name stores or restaurants, and it does not publish a drive time. Tour the route you will actually use.

On-site recreation is not a park directory in these fields. The county record supports a boat-access lot legal, a club-house and boat-storage legal, and a mixed lakefront / residential-improved class. Off-site public ramps and marinas are a separate trip. This page does not publish that drive time, and it does not publish a frontage distance.

Contact The Patrick O'Connor Team

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Home Prices

There is no The Oaks price range in the public record assembled for this page. The assessor sales cited under Market Data are individual deeds. They are not a median, not a list-price band, and not a price per square foot. Do not average lakefront and residential-improved deeds into one neighborhood price.

Use the Market Data section for the figures this page will stand behind, including $1,350,000 on July 10, 2026, for 309 Bent Oak Drive (lakefront improved), and $629,000 on June 20, 2025, for 418 Caro Lane (residential improved). Price any other house from the plat, the tax class, and current MLS comps.

Quick Facts

Place: The Oaks, Chapin, SC 29036
Jurisdiction: unincorporated Lexington County. Not inside the Town of Chapin. Tax district 5 on the parcels in this set
Counts that do not match: NumberLots 55 (Creekside null), address points THE OAKS 55, strict legal parcels 52, Creekside address points 15
Lakefront improved 21, residential improved 27. Not every house is the lakefront type
HOA / common-area owner string: Oaks at Oakbrook Landing Homeowners Asso. Dues not published. Gate not in this record
Streets: Bent Oak Drive, Bent Oak Court, Caro Lane
Not this map: Oaks of Lexington, River Oaks, Oakbrook Landing Ph 1, Oaks at Oakbrook Landing Ph 2
Schools: not assigned here. Use the district locator

Schools are not assigned in the records used here. No school locator was queried, and no school building is named on this page. Tax district labels in the county auditor's TY2025 millage schedule sit in a School District Five column context for code 5. That is a millage column, not an enrollment letter. Confirm the address with the district that serves the house before you rely on a school name in a listing.

Waterfront Homes

Do not write a frontage distance, and do not say every The Oaks lot fronts the water. On the 52-parcel strict legal set, the tax roll classifies 21 parcels lakefront improved and 1 parcel lakefront unimproved. The other 30 are not that type.

Legal lines in this set do not print “Lake Murray.” Deed images were not opened. No frontage length is published here.

Ask, for the specific house, whether the property type is lakefront and what the legal says. This page does not assign a dock, a beach, or a length of shoreline.

Lake Murray Access

Classify The Oaks as an unincorporated Chapin-mailing subdivision with a mixed lakefront and residential-improved tax class:

On the county class: 21 lakefront improved, 1 lakefront unimproved
Not that class: 27 residential improved, 1 rural improved, 2 common-area parcels
Common-area legals: boat-access lot; club house & boat storage — not a shoreline measurement
Not established: a frontage distance, or “Lake Murray” printed on the legal lines in this set
Off site: public ramps and marinas are a separate drive. This page does not publish that drive time

Read the legal description and the property type before you treat a Bent Oak or Caro Lane house as water.

Location and Commute

The Oaks is in unincorporated Lexington County, mailing city Chapin, ZIP 29036. Municipal point checks hit Unincorporated, designation OUT.

This page does not publish a minute count. Drive the commute at the hour you travel.

Nearby Neighborhoods to Compare

Timberlake, Palmetto Shores, Whitewater Landing, and Forty Love Point already have live Chapin-side guides
The Oaks, Oakbrook Landing, Paradise Cove, Woodlake Shores, Reserve @ Lake Murray, and Mallard Landing are the Chapin Lake Murray guides in this research set — compare plat and tax class, not the shared lake name
Other lake names on the Lexington side (for example Spence Plantation or Harbour Place) are different maps and different mailing cities

More guides sit on the Neighborhoods hub. Compare the property type on the parcel, not a shared word in a name.

Buying a Home in The Oaks

A practical checklist from the county file:

Confirm the legal is THE OAKS in Chapin 29036, unincorporated, tax district 5, and not Oaks of Lexington (29072), River Oaks, or Oaks at Oakbrook Landing
Read the property type. Twenty-one parcels are lakefront improved. Twenty-seven are residential improved
Skip treating 213 Bent Oak Drive and 221A Bent Oak Drive as ordinary house counts
Ask which association string, if any, touches the lot. Common areas use the Oaks at Oakbrook Landing homeowners string
Ask for any covenants and any assessment. This guide has no dues number. Nothing in these fields says the streets are gated
Do not publish a Lake Murray frontage distance from these fields
Confirm school assignment with the district locator. This guide does not name a school as assigned
Price from recorded sales in the same tax class and current comps

Call The Patrick O'Connor Team at 803-243-0224 for a current MLS pull and a tour.

Selling a Home in The Oaks

Buyers will ask whether the lot is typed lakefront or residential improved, whether the legal is The Oaks or Oaks at Oakbrook Landing, and what the 2025–2026 assessor sales do and do not say about price. They will also ask about the Oaks at Oakbrook Landing homeowners string on the common-area parcels.

Price from the recorded lot and from truly similar The Oaks sales in the same class. Put the unincorporated jurisdiction and any covenants in writing. Do not borrow a median or a frontage length. The Patrick O'Connor Team can build that packet and the launch plan.

Thinking of selling? Call 803-243-0224 or use the contact button below.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is The Oaks inside the Town of Chapin?

No, on the records used here. Address points are unincorporated. The parcels in the strict set are tax district 5, not 5C. The mailing city is Chapin and the ZIP is 29036.

How many homes are in The Oaks?

This page does not publish one number. NumberLots on THE OAKS is 55 and Creekside is null. Address points tagged THE OAKS are 55. The strict legal set is 52. Creekside @ The Oaks adds 15 address points. Those fields do not match.

Does every house front the water?

No. Twenty-one parcels are typed lakefront improved. One is lakefront unimproved. The other thirty are not that type. No frontage distance is in these fields. Deed images were not opened.

What are the HOA dues?

Not published in the county record used here. The roll shows Oaks at Oakbrook Landing Homeowners Asso on two common-area parcels. The dollar amount is not. A gate is not in this record.

Is this Oaks of Lexington?

No. Oaks of Lexington is a separate Hunley Drive subdivision in Lexington 29072, tax district 1. The shared restrictions-index book/page pair 9788 / 24 is a naming trap, not proof they are one neighborhood.

What did recent sales show?

Examples on the assessor file include 309 Bent Oak Drive at $1,350,000 on July 10, 2026 (lakefront improved) and 418 Caro Lane at $629,000 on June 20, 2025 (residential improved). They are not a median and not today's list price.

What schools serve The Oaks?

This research did not return an elementary, middle, or high assignment, so none is named here. Check the address on the district site before you rely on a school name in a listing.

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