Pelzer, South Carolina.
. Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$870 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Living in Pelzer, Greenville County, South Carolina
Pelzer is a town of 1,344 people in Greenville County. Half its households earn more than $58,134 a year and half less, against $76,932 across Greenville County. Unemployment in Greenville County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pelzer is a small town in Greenville County, South Carolina, home to a modest number of people who live close to one another. Household incomes here run below the county's as a whole. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, with January days that stay above freezing and nights that dip to around the freezing mark, and snow is rare. Summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, manufacturing and retail. Some of the largest workplaces across Greenville County are Greenville 01 Schools, GHS Greenville Memorial Hospital and GE Vernova's gas power plant in Greenville. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Watermelon Creek is a short drive away, a small stream close to home. A longer drive brings you to Reedy River Falls Historic Park and Greenway, a waterfall and walking area in Greenville, and to Lake Hartwell, a large reservoir. The Greenville County Museum of Art is also a longer drive away for an indoor outing.
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- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenville County had 302,324 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Pelzer weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenville County
- Greenville 01 SchoolsSchool district11,157FTE
- GHS Greenville Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital4,869FTE
- GE Vernova - Gas Power GreenvilleGas turbine generator set units manufacturing3,200
- St. Francis HospitalGeneral hospital2,008FTE
- Lockheed Martin Corporation LM Aircraft Logistics Center (1524)1,811
- Michelin North America, Inc. - Corporate SiteCorporate offices1,774
- Goodwill Industries Upstate/MidlandsUsed merchandise stores1,243
- Sealed Air Corp, Food And Care DivisionFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing1,202
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 536 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 88,374 people in all across the county; Pelzer has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of PelzerRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pelzer’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 Greenville County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Pelzer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Pelzer listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Pelzer27.18%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pelzer46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pelzer10
Zip codes with a Pelzer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pelzer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.