Mountville, South Carolina.
Typical home $202,023 (+0.1% in a year). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $287 (-21%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $165 +0%
- $201,858$202,023 since Sep 2025
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.
- Mountville$1,060
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mountville, SC rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountville, Laurens County, South Carolina
Mountville, in Laurens County, had 100 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Laurens County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Laurens 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mountville is a small community in Laurens County, South Carolina, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall across the year, so the area stays fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Others work in shops and in professional and business services.
Things to do. For a short outing, Reedy River is a river a short drive away, and Lake Greenwood is a lake a short drive away. For a longer trip, Ninety Six National Historic Site is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Abbeville Opera House is a theatre a longer drive away.
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What people in Laurens County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Laurens County had 20,405 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clinton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Laurens County
- ZF Transmissions Gray CourtManufacturing2,263
- Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors1,092
- Laurens 55 SchoolsSchool district926FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage736
- Sterilite Corporation CSCMfg of plastic housewares492
- Laurens County GovernmentExecutive and legislative office combinations480
- Laurens 56 SchoolsSchool district469FTE
- Teknor Apex Company - South CarolinaCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins335
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,527 people in all across the county; Mountville 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mountville’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 Laurens County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Mountville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mountville$202,023
- 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 Mountville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mountville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.