Clinton, South Carolina.
Typical home $172,940 (-3.2% in a year). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$218 (+32%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,705 -3%
- $178,645$172,940 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $43,265 -20%
- $216,205$172,940 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.
- Clinton$908
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Clinton, SC fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinton, Laurens County, South Carolina
Clinton is a city of 7,633 people in Laurens County. Half its households earn more than $44,522 a year and half less, against $57,623 across Laurens County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Laurens County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinton is a small city in Laurens County, South Carolina, and its residents are younger than in most American places. Incomes are below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect, while owners and renters share the town's homes about equally. Winters are cool and short, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also giving many people their living. Presbyterian College is one of the largest workplaces in town, alongside NHC Healthcare and Ingles Markets. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Musgrove Mill State Historic Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away, and the stadiums Bailey Memorial Stadium and Old Bailey Stadium are in or beside town. For a longer outing, Sumter National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is Lake Greenwood, a lake good for time on the water.
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- 2,472households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Laurens County had 20,405 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clinton weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton
- Presbyterian CollegeUniversity or college302
- NHC Healthcare, ClintonSkilled nursing facilities145
- The Clinton Presbyterian CommunityContinuing care retirement communities90
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores70
- Food LionGrocery store68
- Hospice of Laurens CountyHome care of elderly, medical63
- Daly SevenHotels, resort, without casinos30
- AVI FoodsystemsFood service28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 548 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clinton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Laurens County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$172,940
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Clinton 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.
- Clinton27.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clinton63
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clinton13
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.