Liberty, South Carolina.
Typical home $271,802 (+4.6% in a year). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$861 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,930 +5%
- $259,873$271,802 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,298 +43%
- $190,505$271,802 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.
- Liberty$1,427
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Liberty, SC rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Liberty, Pickens County, South Carolina
Liberty is a city of 3,366 people in Pickens County. Half its households earn more than $42,206 a year and half less, against $61,064 across Pickens County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Pickens County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Liberty is a small city in Pickens County, in the foothills of upstate South Carolina. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well below the county's as a whole. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect, and winters are mild and short, with snow a rare sight, while summers turn hot and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Liberty are Cornell Dubilier Marketing, a maker of electronic capacitors, and Ingles Markets, a grocery chain. Unemployment across Pickens County has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs, though most people here still drive a fair way to work and only a few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Table Rock State Park is a protected area of mountain scenery, and Lake Keowee offers open water for boating and fishing, each a longer drive away. Eastatoe Falls is one of several waterfalls in the surrounding hills, also a longer drive away. Football fans can make the longer trip to Memorial Stadium in Clemson.
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- 1,332households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pickens County had 40,585 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 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pickens weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Liberty
- Cornell Dubilier MarketingCapacitors, electronic, fixed and variable, manufacturing330
- Ingles MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores128
- LibertyMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 478 people in all. 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 in parts of LibertyRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of LibertyRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Liberty’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Pickens County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Liberty home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Liberty$271,802
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Liberty listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Liberty26.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Liberty41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Liberty11
Zip codes with a Liberty address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Liberty — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.