D.R. Horton Floor Plans in Horry County SC — Find Your Plan First [2026]

D.R. Horton floor plans in Horry County SC repeat from one neighborhood to the next, which means the layout you walked through in one model home is very likely being built somewhere else too. D.R. Horton builds the same handful of floor plans over and over across its 28-plus active communities in Horry County — the Cali, the Aria, the Alder and roughly twenty others appear, with small variations, from Conway to Loris to Little River. That means two buyers touring different model homes an hour apart can walk through the exact same layout, sometimes at noticeably different prices. This guide flips the usual approach: instead of picking a community and then seeing what's built there, it starts with the floor plan and shows you every community currently building it, so you can compare price, lot, and HOA across communities without giving up the layout you actually want.

We profile one plan in full detail at a time, starting with the Cali, and link out from this page as each new plan guide goes live. For the community-by-community view, see our complete guide to every D.R. Horton community in Horry County.

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Why Shop by Floor Plan Instead of by Community?

Most buyers who shop plan-first got there the same way: they toured a model home, loved the layout, and were lukewarm on the neighborhood around it. Once you know a split-bedroom ranch with an open kitchen is what you want to live in every day, starting over community by community is slow and largely redundant, because the plan you liked is probably being built in three or four other places within a half hour. Searching new construction floor plans in Horry County by layout puts those options side by side in one pass.

Shopping by plan also helps when the layout matters more to you than the amenity package. If a one-story with no stairs is a requirement for aging in place, that need outranks whether the community has a pool or which elementary school it feeds. Holding the plan constant lets you sort the rest on your own terms.

The same D.R. Horton floor plan can price ten or twenty thousand dollars apart between two Horry County communities. Lot cost and how far along a community is in its build-out drive most of that gap. Plan-first shopping works best once you already have a rough budget and a general area in mind — it narrows the field quickly, but it does not replace community research entirely.

How Do D.R. Horton Floor Plans Work Across Different Communities?

D.R. Horton designs its plans centrally and makes them available to whichever of its regional divisions wants to build them. That is why the same plan name and the same floor-plan code turn up in communities that are otherwise unrelated — different towns, different price points, different amenity packages, identical layout on paper. A Cali in Conway and a Cali in Little River come from the same drawing, and that single fact is what makes shopping D.R. Horton floor plans in Horry County SC by layout practical in the first place.

D.R. Horton sells under two main lines in this market, the Express Series and the Tradition Series. Express is the entry-level line, built around smaller footprints and fixed finish packages that keep the price down and the build fast. Tradition is the step-up line, with larger plans and more structural options available. Individual plan pages on drhorton.com usually state which series applies at that community, and the same plan can be sold under different series in different communities, so check the plan page for the specific community rather than assuming from the plan name.

Treat every figure on this page as a starting point for a conversation with the sales office, not a locked-in number. A plan's base price, its included features, and even its exact square footage can shift slightly by community and by when D.R. Horton last updated that community's plan sheet. Current pricing and availability live on drhorton.com and with the on-site agent, and both change as phases release and sell through.

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The Cali Floor Plan — Available Now

The Cali is a 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom, single-story ranch plan of roughly 1,774 square feet, and it is the first plan we have profiled in full for this series. It uses a split-bedroom layout, with the owner's suite separated from the three secondary bedrooms, and an open kitchen, dining and family room running through the center of the house. The D.R. Horton Cali floor plan is also the layout we get asked about most often, which makes it a useful first test of the plan-first approach: the same plan is confirmed at 21 Horry County communities, and it starts roughly $84,000 apart between the cheapest and the most expensive of them.

The Cali guide covers the layout room by room, the trade-offs of the split-bedroom design, and how the plan is priced and optioned across communities. Read the complete Cali floor plan guide.

Cali pricing verified on drhorton.com in September 2026 and subject to change without notice. Community pages publish most prices rounded to the nearest thousand. These are base prices before lot premium, options and incentives.

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Other D.R. Horton Floor Plans in Horry County

The plans below are confirmed as offered at Auberon Woods in Conway as of August 2026, and that is the only availability we can document for them right now. Auberon Woods carries the widest plan selection of any D.R. Horton community in the county, so it is the best single place to see the full range of D.R. Horton house plans in Conway SC. Dedicated guides for each plan, showing every community that offers it, will be added to this hub as they are written.

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Same Plan, Different Community — How Do You Choose?

Start with lot premiums, because they apply on top of the base price no matter which plan you pick. A corner lot, a pond view, a wooded rear boundary or a cul-de-sac position can each add cost, and two communities can price the same premium very differently. Ask for the lot map with premiums marked rather than the base price alone.

Then compare where each community sits in its build-out. An early phase usually means better lot selection and lower pricing, but also years of construction traffic and unfinished amenities next door. A later phase means the pool and the entrance are done and the streets are quiet, with fewer lots left to choose from and prices that have typically stepped up since the first release.

HOA dues, commute and school zone are where the real differences show up once the plan is held constant. The same D.R. Horton floor plan in Conway, Loris and Little River can mean a 20 to 30 minute difference in drive time to the beach, different school assignments, and a different monthly HOA figure. Buyers who start out searching D.R. Horton floor plans in Myrtle Beach often end up inland once they see what the same layout costs there. That is the point of shopping this way: once the layout is fixed, the decision comes down to location and community trade-offs, which is exactly the comparison worth spending your time on.

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What to Know Before Buying by Floor Plan First

1. Confirm the plan is still being offered. D.R. Horton rotates which plans are active at a given community as phases progress, and a plan offered in the current phase may not carry into the next release. Confirm current plan availability with the sales office before you fall in love with a specific layout at a specific address, and ask which plans are expected in the next phase.
2. The same plan name does not guarantee identical specs. Minor layout tweaks, included features, elevation choices and available structural options can vary by division and by community. A garage entry, a covered porch or a flex room that came standard in the model you toured may be an option or unavailable somewhere else. Walk the actual model or ask for the community-specific spec sheet rather than assuming a plan you saw in another town is identical to the one being built here.
3. Price the same plan at two or three communities before deciding. Because lot cost, phase timing and current incentives all vary, the same floor plan can price several thousand dollars apart between communities that look similar on paper. Incentives are often tied to using the builder's preferred lender or to closing within a set window, so compare the full package rather than the headline number. That gap between communities is real negotiating room, and you only see it by asking in more than one place.
4. Bring your own agent regardless of which community you land in. The agent sitting in the model home works for D.R. Horton, not for you, and their job is to sell that community's inventory rather than to compare it against the one down the road. Your own agent can price the same plan across communities, read the contract, and hold the builder to its timelines. See our guides to making an offer and getting pre-approved before you tour.

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Frequently Asked Questions — D.R. Horton Floor Plans

Does D.R. Horton use the same floor plans at different communities?

Yes. D.R. Horton designs plans centrally and builds the same layouts, under the same plan names, across many unrelated communities in a region. The Cali plan, for example, is confirmed at 21 Horry County communities as of September 2026, from Loris to Myrtle Beach, at base prices ranging from the $277,000s to $360,990.

Can you get the same D.R. Horton floor plan at a lower price in a different Horry County community?

Often, yes. The same plan's base price varies by community based on lot cost, how far along the community is in its build-out, and current incentives. Confirming pricing at two or three communities offering the same plan is a reasonable way to find negotiating room.

What is the difference between D.R. Horton Express and Tradition Series plans?

Express Series is the entry-level line with smaller footprints and fixed finish packages. Tradition Series is the step-up line with larger plans and more structural options. The same plan can be sold under either series depending on the community, so check that community's plan page on drhorton.com and confirm the included-features sheet with the sales office.

Should you use your own agent when buying a specific floor plan?

Yes. The agent in the model home works for D.R. Horton. Bring your own buyer's agent, and in most cases you need them present at your first visit to be registered. Contact us before you tour.

This page is our running index to D.R. Horton floor plans in Horry County SC, and we add each plan guide here as it is published. If you would rather start from the neighborhood than the layout, work from our complete guide to every D.R. Horton community in Horry County instead, then come back here once you know which plan you want.

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