Iva, South Carolina.
Typical home $218,737 (+1.1% in a year). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,382 +1%
- $216,356$218,737 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,418 +13%
- $193,319$218,737 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.
- Iva$1,148
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Iva, SC rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Iva, Abbeville County, South Carolina
Iva is a town of 1,015 people in Abbeville County. Unemployment in Abbeville County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Abbeville 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Iva is a small town in Abbeville County, in the South Carolina Piedmont, with a population that has stayed small. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and almost no one works from home. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents are most often employed in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Abbeville County, the largest workplaces include Abbeville 60 Schools, Prysmian Cables and Systems USA and Abbeville Area Medical Center. The county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. Lake Hartwell is a large reservoir, and Richard B. Russell State Park is a protected area on the water, both a longer drive away. The Abbeville Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive away and suits an evening out.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Abbeville County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Abbeville County had 5,581 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hartwell Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Abbeville County
- Abbeville 60 SchoolsSchool district469FTE
- Anderson 03 SchoolsSchool district393FTE
- Prysmian Cables and Systems USACable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire358
- Erskine CollegeUniversity or college198
- ACS ManufacturingAir cargo containers, light gauge metal, manufacturing156
- Abbeville Area Medical CenterCritical access hospital151FTE
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores141
- AramarkFood service contractors66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 873 people in all across the county; Iva has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Iva’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 Abbeville County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Iva home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Iva$218,737
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Iva listings — 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.
- Iva15.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Iva39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Iva7
Zip codes with a Iva address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Iva — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.