Inman, South Carolina.
Typical home $303,987 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $1,579 (+6.0%). Spartanburg, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$909 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,270 +2%
- $298,717$303,987 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,976 +29%
- $236,011$303,987 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.
- Inman$1,596
- 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 Inman, SC rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Inman, SC rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Inman runs $480/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $575 in Nov 2023.
That is $2,059 a month against $1,579 rent: a $1,596 mortgage payment, plus $138 property tax and $325 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Inman
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$2,059
- Renting$1,579
- Mortgage only$1,596
Property tax · $138/mo 0.55% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Spartanburg County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $325/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 Inman, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
Inman is a city of 2,990 people in Spartanburg County. 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 people in Spartanburg County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Inman is a small city in Spartanburg County, in the upstate part of South Carolina. Poverty is more common here than in many places, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than across the country as a whole. A typical home costs a good deal, and rents are not low either. Winters are cool, with a little snow now and then, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow arrive in generous amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Spartanburg County, some of the largest workplaces are BMW Manufacturing Co, Spartanburg Regional Medical Center and Spartanburg 06 Schools. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier. Most people drive a fair way to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Lake Bowen is a reservoir a short drive away, and the Pacolet River, also a short drive off, offers more water close to home. HollyWild Animal Park, a zoo, is a short drive away as well. For a longer outing, Cowpens National Battlefield, an archaeological site tied to the Revolutionary War, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,337households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Spartanburg County 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, 8 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; Inman has one 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Inman’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 Spartanburg County and the Spartanburg, SC metro.
Inman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Inman$303,987
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Inman listings, and the typical home goes pending in 35 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.
- Inman29.08%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Inman35
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Inman224
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Inman51
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Inman$289,302
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Inman97.61%
Zip codes with a Inman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Inman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.