Newberry, South Carolina.
Typical home $168,812 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $1,283 . Newberry, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$366 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,528 +3%
- $163,284$168,812 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,999 -4%
- $175,811$168,812 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.
- Newberry$886
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Newberry, SC rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina
Newberry is a city of 10,691 people in Newberry County. Half its households earn more than $51,260 a year and half less, against $61,780 across Newberry County; 32% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newberry is a small city with a young population, where people are on average much younger than in most American towns. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than in many places, while homes are split about evenly between those lived in by their owners and those rented. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with rain spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Newberry are Newberry 01 Schools, Newberry County Memorial Hospital and Newberry College. Few people work from home, and most commutes are of moderate length.
Things to do. The Newberry Opera House is a theatre in or beside town, and Wells Japanese Garden is a garden in the same area. For time outdoors, Lake Murray is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Sumter National Forest is a protected area that is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,938households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 32%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents 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, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newberry
- Newberry 01 SchoolsSchool district858FTE
- Newberry County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital372FTE
- Newberry CollegeUniversity or college319
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- County of NewberryCounty supervisors' and executives' offices210
- White Oak Manor Newberry623110 nursing care facilities175
- J.F. Hawkins Nursing HomeSkilled nursing facilities117
- Metz Culinary ManagementFood service contractor74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,371 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 high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newberry’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 Newberry County and the Newberry, SC metro.
Newberry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newberry$168,812
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Newberry listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Newberry32.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newberry51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newberry11
Zip codes with a Newberry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newberry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.