Abbeville, South Carolina.
Typical home $217,320 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$644 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,371 +4%
- $208,948$217,320 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,642 +24%
- $175,678$217,320 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Abbeville$1,141
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Abbeville, SC rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina
Abbeville is a city of 4,874 people in Abbeville County. Half its households earn more than $40,575 a year and half less, against $52,935 across Abbeville County; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Abbeville County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Abbeville is a small city in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Incomes in town run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, so it is a place where many households stretch a modest budget. Owners and renters share the town's homes about evenly, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in much of the country. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Abbeville County, the largest workplaces include the Abbeville school district, Prysmian Cables and Systems USA, and Abbeville Area Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Most people travel a fairly short distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Abbeville Opera House, a theatre in or beside town, is the closest place on the list for an evening out. A longer drive brings you to Ninety Six National Historic Site, a protected area, and to Lake Greenwood, a lake. Richard B. Russell State Park, also a longer drive away, is another protected area for time outdoors.
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- 1,954households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Abbeville County had 5,581 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenwood weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Abbeville County
- Abbeville 60 SchoolsSchool district469FTE
- Anderson 03 SchoolsSchool district393FTE
- Prysmian Cables and Systems USACable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire358
- Erskine CollegeUniversity or college198
- ACS ManufacturingAir cargo containers, light gauge metal, manufacturing156
- Abbeville Area Medical CenterCritical access hospital151FTE
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores141
- AramarkFood service contractors66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 873 people in all across the county; Abbeville has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Abbeville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Abbeville County.
Abbeville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Abbeville$217,320
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Abbeville listings — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Abbeville32.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Abbeville57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Abbeville10
Zip codes with a Abbeville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Abbeville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.