Ninety Six, South Carolina.
Typical home $176,495 (+3.8% in a year). Greenwood, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$479 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,423 +4%
- $170,072$176,495 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,847 +23%
- $143,648$176,495 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.
- Ninety Six$926
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Ninety Six, SC rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ninety Six, Greenwood County, South Carolina
Ninety Six is a town of 2,076 people in Greenwood County. Half its households earn more than $55,417 a year and half less, against $52,830 across Greenwood County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Greenwood County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greenwood County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ninety Six is a small town in the South Carolina Upstate, and a quiet one. Incomes run a little above the county's, though more households here live below the poverty line than most would expect, and homes are fairly modest in price. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest days in January staying cool rather than harsh, while July brings hot summers. Rain is steady through the year, with a good deal of it overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing, with others in shops, restaurants and hotels. Across Greenwood County, some of the largest workplaces are Self Regional Healthcare, Greenwood 50 Schools and Lander University. Most people commute a moderate distance to work, and very few work from home. Joblessness in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Ninety Six National Historic Site is a protected area in or beside town, and the most natural first stop for a walk. A short drive away are Lake Greenwood, a lake for time on the water, and Greenwood Community Theatre for an evening out. Lake Greenwood State Recreation Area, also a short drive away, offers more room to spend a day outdoors.
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- 23%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Greenwood County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenwood County had 28,148 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenwood 8NE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenwood County
- Self Regional HealthcareGeneral hospital1,899FTE
- Greenwood 50 SchoolsSchool district1,432FTE
- Lander UniversityUniversity or college674
- Lonza GreenwoodGelatin capsules, empty, manufacturing635
- Piedmont Technical CollegeTwo-year college507
- Fujifilm North America Corporation- GreenwoodPhotofinishing services492
- Greenwood County Local GovernmentExecutive and legislative office combinations475
- Cardinal HealthDiapers, disposable, made from purchased paper or textile fiber466
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,993 people in all across the county; Ninety Six has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ninety Six’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 Greenwood County and the Greenwood, SC metro.
Ninety Six home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ninety Six$176,495
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Ninety Six listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Ninety Six26.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ninety Six64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ninety Six11
Zip codes with a Ninety Six address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ninety Six — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.