Eastover, South Carolina.
Typical home $61,321 (-23.8% in a year). Columbia, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$182 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $19,108 -24%
- $80,429$61,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $135 -0%
- $61,456$61,321 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.
- Eastover$322
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Eastover, SC fell 23.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina
Eastover is a town of 614 people in Richland County. Unemployment in Richland County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richland County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eastover is a very small town in Richland County, South Carolina, where homes are modest in price compared with much of the country. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the typical drive to work is long, since most jobs are found elsewhere in the county.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Richland County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of South Carolina-Columbia, Richland 01 Schools and Prisma Health Richland Hospital. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Congaree National Park is a short drive away, a national park of the kind where visitors can walk and spend time outdoors. The Santee River, also a short drive off, is a river for fishing and being on the water. A longer drive brings you to Riverbanks Zoo and the Columbia Museum of Art, for a day out in the city. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
What people in Richland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 229,383 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wedgefield weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richland County
- University of South Carolina-ColumbiaUniversity or college7,939
- Richland 01 SchoolsSchool district4,436FTE
- Richland 02 SchoolsSchool district4,237FTE
- SC Department of TransportationTransportation safety programs, government3,939
- Defender ServicesFacilities support services3,487
- Prisma Health Richland HospitalGeneral hospital3,381FTE
- Lexington 05 SchoolsSchool district3,247FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,607
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 283 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 49,086 people in all across the county; Eastover has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eastover’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 Richland County and the Columbia, SC metro.
Eastover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eastover$61,321
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eastover4
Zip codes with a Eastover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eastover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.