Chesnee, South Carolina.
Typical home $291,479 (+2.7% in a year). Spartanburg, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$909 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,733 +3%
- $283,746$291,479 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,808 +36%
- $213,671$291,479 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.
- Chesnee$1,530
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Chesnee, SC rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chesnee, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
Chesnee is a city of 829 people in Spartanburg County. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Spartanburg County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chesnee is a very small city in Spartanburg County, with fewer residents than most towns of its kind. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and typical home values are well above what many people expect for a small South Carolina town. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and bring almost no snow, summers run hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing, with a good number in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Spartanburg County, the largest workplaces include BMW Manufacturing Co, Spartanburg Regional Medical Center and the Spartanburg 06 Schools district. The county has been adding jobs, and unemployment there is lower than a year ago. Commutes are fairly typical, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Cowpens National Battlefield, a historic site from the Revolutionary War, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the Pacolet River and Lake Blalock, a lake, both good for time outdoors. Farther afield, Chimney Rock State Park is a protected area in the mountains, a longer drive away.
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- 350households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Spartanburg County had 157,484 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 1 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chesnee Wsw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Spartanburg County
- BMW Manufacturing CoAssembly plants, passenger car, on chassis of own manufacture13,385
- Spartanburg Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,699FTE
- Spartanburg Regional Healthcare SystemPhysician offices3,451
- Spartanburg 06 SchoolsSchool district1,787FTE
- Spartanburg CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations1,734
- Spartanburg 02 SchoolsSchool district1,583FTE
- Spartanburg 07 SchoolsSchool district1,529FTE
- Michelin-US3 SpartanburgTires manufacturing1,370
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 400 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,287 people in all across the county; Chesnee has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chesnee’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 Spartanburg County and the Spartanburg, SC metro.
Chesnee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chesnee$291,479
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Chesnee listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Chesnee33.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chesnee70
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chesnee17
Zip codes with a Chesnee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chesnee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.