Easley, South Carolina.
Typical home $320,721 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,601 (+3.3%). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$954 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,296 +2%
- $314,425$320,721 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,705 +30%
- $247,016$320,721 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.
- Easley$1,683
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Easley, SC rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Easley, SC rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Easley runs $525/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $653 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,127 a month against $1,601 rent: a $1,683 mortgage payment, plus $100 property tax and $343 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Easley
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$2,127
- Renting$1,601
- Mortgage only$1,683
Property tax · $100/mo 0.37% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Pickens County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $343/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 Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina
Easley is a city of 22,921 people in Pickens County. Half its households earn more than $66,299 a year and half less, against $61,064 across Pickens County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Easley was 3.7% in August 2026, and Pickens County had 1.8% 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. Easley is a city in Pickens County, South Carolina, with a population that sits in the middle of the age range, neither especially young nor especially old. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild and short, with almost no snow, while summers are hot and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and retail close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Easley are PH Baptist Easley Hospital, Walmart and Danfoss Power Solution. Unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are fairly typical for a city of this kind, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The Saluda River is a short drive away, and Greenville-Pickens Speedway, a race track, is also close by. A longer drive brings you to Table Rock State Park, a protected area, and to Bridal Veil Falls, a waterfall. Memorial Stadium in Clemson, a stadium, is another longer drive.
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- 10,949households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pickens County had 40,585 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pickens weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Easley
- PH Baptist Easley HospitalGeneral hospital422FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters322
- Danfoss Power SolutionHydraulic valves, fluid power, manufacturing303
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters163
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores155
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter149
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores137
- EasleyMail and parcel delivery83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,241 people in all. Hospitals come 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 stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Easley’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 Pickens County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Easley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Easley$320,721
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Easley listings, and the typical home goes pending in 32 days — 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.
- Easley30.69%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Easley32
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Easley282
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Easley75
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Easley$298,357
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Easley98.33%
Zip codes with a Easley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Easley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Easley
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29642 | Easley | 36,852 | $1,927 | $352,810 |
| 29640 | Easley | 33,142 | $1,501 | $280,353 |