Kinards, South Carolina.
Typical home $195,976 (+1.7% in a year). Newberry, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$414 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,203 +2%
- $192,773$195,976 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $17,297 -8%
- $213,273$195,976 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.
- Kinards$1,029
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kinards, SC rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kinards, Newberry County, South Carolina
The Census does not count Kinards on its own, so the figures here are Newberry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,780 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Newberry County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newberry County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kinards is a small community in Newberry County, in the Piedmont of South Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and the building trades. Across Newberry County, unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up. Few people work from home.
Things to do. Sumter National Forest, a protected area a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby places. Newberry Opera House, a theatre also a longer drive away, is another option. Bailey Memorial Stadium, a stadium a short drive away, is the closest of the places listed.
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- 15,325households
- 41.9median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Newberry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newberry County had 14,441 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newberry weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newberry County
- Newberry 01 SchoolsSchool district858FTE
- Newberry County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital372FTE
- Newberry CollegeUniversity or college319
- Prosperity Plywood296
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- KRA OperationsLaundry equipment, household-type, manufacturing280
- Valmont Industries222
- Trane Technologies220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,443 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Newberry County, 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 Newberry County and the Newberry, SC metro.
Kinards home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kinards$195,976
- 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.
Zip codes with a Kinards address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kinards — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.