Lynchburg, South Carolina.
Typical home $130,682 (-4.6% in a year). Sumter, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$181 (+36%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,249 -5%
- $136,931$130,682 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $28,427 -18%
- $159,109$130,682 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.
- Lynchburg$686
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Lynchburg, SC fell 4.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lynchburg, Lee County, South Carolina
Lynchburg is a town of 318 people in Lee County. Unemployment in Lee County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lynchburg is a very small town in Lee County, South Carolina, where people tend to know one another. Homes here are modest in price, and household incomes across Lee County sit below what is typical for the state. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest days in January still staying above freezing for most of the day, while summers turn hot by July.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in government. Across Lee County, the largest workplaces include Lee 01 Schools, Lee County Government and Ardagh Metal Packaging in Bishopville. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, jobs have slipped slightly, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. Woods Bay State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest outdoor choice. A longer drive brings you to Darlington Raceway, one of the best known race tracks in the region, and to Moore Farms Botanical Garden for a quieter day among the plantings. The Black River is also a longer drive away for those who like to be near water.
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- 36 mintypical commute
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 3,600 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elliott Northwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- Lee 01 SchoolsSchool district311FTE
- Crown Health Care Laundry ServicesHealthcare laundry processing location210
- Lee County GovernmentLegislative and executive office combinations185
- Coca Cola Consolidated177
- Ardagh Metal Packaging - BishopvilleAluminum can manufacturing112
- Food LionGrocery stores61
- EFPPolystyrene foam packaging manufacturing53
- RBC Bearings - Eastern Distribution CenterRoller bearings manufacturing31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 885 people in all across the county; Lynchburg has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Lynchburg’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 Lee County and the Sumter, SC metro.
Lynchburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lynchburg$130,682
- 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 Lynchburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lynchburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.