Greenville, South Carolina.
Typical home $328,460 (+1.6% in a year), asking rent $1,564 (+2.7%). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$939 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,225 +2%
- $323,234$328,460 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,718 +27%
- $257,742$328,460 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.
- Greenville$1,724
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Greenville, SC rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Greenville, SC rose 2.7% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Greenville runs $650/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $717 in May 2024.
That is $2,214 a month against $1,564 rent: a $1,724 mortgage payment, plus $138 property tax and $352 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Greenville
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$2,214
- Renting$1,564
- Mortgage only$1,724
Property tax · $138/mo 0.51% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Greenville County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $352/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 Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina
Greenville is a city of 70,720 people in Greenville County. Half its households earn more than $71,472 a year and half less, against $76,932 across Greenville County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 41% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 59% are rented. Unemployment in Greenville was 3.7% in August 2026, and Greenville County had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Greenville is a city with a young population, and most households rent rather than own their homes. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of residents hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and mild, summers are warm, and rain and the occasional melted snow fall across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing, with many others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in the city are Greenville 01 Schools, GHS Greenville Memorial Hospital and Greenville Technical College. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Reedy River Falls Historic Park and Greenway is a waterfall park in or beside town, and the Greenville County Museum of Art is a museum close by as well. Paris Mountain State Park is a protected area a short drive away. For an evening out, the Peace Center is a theatre in or beside town.
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- 35,482households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenville County had 302,324 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 87° and lows near 68°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenville
- Greenville 01 SchoolsSchool district11,157FTE
- GHS Greenville Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital4,869FTE
- Greenville Technical CollegeUniversity or college1,183
- City of GreenvilleExecutive offices, federal, state, and local1,041
- Integrated Power ServicesElectric motor and generator repair955
- Bob Jones UniversityUniversity or college884
- GreenvilleMail and parcel delivery602
- St. Francis - EastsideHospitals, general medical and surgical582
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 114 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,985 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of GreenvilleRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of GreenvilleRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Greenville’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 Greenville County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Greenville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenville$328,460
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Greenville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 36 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.
- Greenville33.05%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Greenville36
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Greenville1,075
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Greenville265
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Greenville$358,836
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Greenville97.52%
Zip codes with a Greenville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Greenville
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29607 | Greenville | 46,209 | $1,501 | $385,351 |
| 29605 | Greenville | 40,717 | $1,718 | $298,298 |
| 29615 | Greenville | 38,811 | $1,393 | $438,763 |
| 29611 | Greenville | 32,365 | $1,590 | $213,642 |
| 29609 | Greenville | 32,292 | $1,538 | $352,947 |
| 29617 | Greenville | 26,582 | $1,572 | $264,869 |
| 29601 | Greenville | 13,790 | $1,825 | $571,299 |