Anderson, South Carolina.
Typical home $269,695 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $1,308 (+3.0%). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$833 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,453 +1%
- $267,242$269,695 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,306 +34%
- $201,389$269,695 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.
- Anderson$1,416
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Anderson, SC rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Anderson, SC rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Anderson runs $498/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $589 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,805 a month against $1,308 rent: a $1,416 mortgage payment, plus $101 property tax and $289 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Anderson
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,805
- Renting$1,308
- Mortgage only$1,416
Property tax · $101/mo 0.45% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Anderson County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $289/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina
Anderson is a city of 28,106 people in Anderson County. Half its households earn more than $46,933 a year and half less, against $66,651 across Anderson County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Anderson was 4.7% in August 2026, and Anderson County had about as many jobs in 2025 as 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. Anderson is a small city whose residents skew young, with a younger typical age than much of the country, and incomes here run well below the county's. Homes are only just more likely to be owner-occupied than rented, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and short, with a little snow now and then, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and restaurants and hotels also employing a lot of people. Among the largest workplaces in Anderson are AnMed Health, Anderson University and the City of Anderson itself. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, most people commute a fairly ordinary distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Within a short drive, Watermelon Creek offers a quiet stretch of water close to town. A longer drive brings you to Lake Hartwell, a large reservoir popular for time on the water, and to the South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson. Memorial Stadium in Clemson, also a longer drive away, is where the area's college football crowds gather.
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- 12,584households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anderson County had 72,704 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anderson weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anderson
- Anmed HealthGeneral hospital2,838FTE
- Anderson UniversityUniversity or college838
- City of AndersonCity and town managers' offices695
- NHC HealthCare, Anderson/LLCSkilled nursing facilities337
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters315
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Priority OnDemandAmbulance services274
- SC Homecare SolutionsHome care of elderly, non-medical268
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,876 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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 stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of AndersonRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anderson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Anderson County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Anderson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anderson$269,695
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Anderson listings, and the typical home goes pending in 39 days — 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.
- Anderson33.03%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Anderson39
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Anderson674
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Anderson144
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Anderson$260,790
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Anderson97.14%
Zip codes with a Anderson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anderson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Anderson
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29621 | Anderson | 46,482 | $1,381 | $314,649 |
| 29625 | Anderson | 28,012 | $1,253 | $259,476 |
| 29626 | Anderson | 13,928 | $1,250 | $267,741 |
| 29624 | Anderson | 13,498 | $1,284 | $142,067 |