Oak Grove, South Carolina.
Typical home $239,835 (+1.9% in a year). Columbia, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$701 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,494 +2%
- $235,342$239,835 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,490 +32%
- $182,345$239,835 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.
- Oak Grove$1,259
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Oak Grove, SC rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oak Grove, Lexington County, South Carolina
Oak Grove, in Lexington County, had 12,899 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $74,554 a year and half less, against $77,408 across Lexington County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Lexington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oak Grove is a community in Lexington County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the town is on the younger side of the age spectrum. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values sit in the middle range for the area. Winters are mild, with very little snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with others in the building trades and government. Among the largest workplaces in Oak Grove are Opus Post Acute Rehab, Universal Health Services and Columbia SC Barnhart Crane and Rigging. Jobs across Lexington County have grown slightly over the past year, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. A short drive away are Riverbanks Zoo, the Columbia Museum of Art and the Congaree River, which suits time on the water. Congaree National Park, a national park, is a longer drive away and worth the trip for its wooded floodplain.
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- 5,025households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lexington County had 134,271 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbia weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oak Grove
- Opus Post Acute RehabSkilled nursing facilities135
- Universal Health ServicesRes mental health substance abuse facilit97
- Columbia SC Barnhart Crane and RiggingCrane and rigging29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 261 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of Oak GroveRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Oak GroveRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oak Grove’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 Lexington County and the Columbia, SC metro.
Oak Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oak Grove$239,835
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Oak Grove 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.
- Oak Grove34.15%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oak Grove20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oak Grove7
Zip codes with a Oak Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oak Grove — 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.