Pendleton, South Carolina.
Typical home $277,984 (-0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,453 (+1.3%). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$842 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $624 -0%
- $278,609$277,984 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,294 +30%
- $213,690$277,984 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.
- Pendleton$1,459
- 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 Pendleton, SC fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pendleton, SC rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pendleton runs $408/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $416 in Jun 2025.
That is $1,861 a month against $1,453 rent: a $1,459 mortgage payment, plus $104 property tax and $298 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pendleton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,861
- Renting$1,453
- Mortgage only$1,459
Property tax · $104/mo 0.45% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Anderson County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $298/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina
Pendleton is a town of 3,489 people in Anderson County. Half its households earn more than $61,901 a year and half less, against $66,651 across Anderson County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Anderson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Anderson 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. Pendleton is a small town in Anderson County, in the South Carolina Upstate. Incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect of a town this size. Winters are cool and seldom bring snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Tri-County Technical College, Anderson 04 Schools and the Milliken & Co. Gerrish Plant are among the largest workplaces in Pendleton. The drive to work is a fairly short one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Woodburn Plantation, a museum, sits in or beside town, and the South Carolina Botanical Garden is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is Memorial Stadium in Clemson, a stadium that draws crowds in football season. For a longer outing, Lake Hartwell, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,889households
- 22%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Anderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anderson County had 72,704 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clemson Univ weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pendleton
- Tri-County Technical CollegeTwo-year college678
- Anderson 04 SchoolsSchool district470FTE
- Milliken & Co. Gerrish PlantWeaving fabrics more than 12 inches in width165
- Food LionGrocery store67
- Ortec - PendletonCarbon organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 259 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pendleton’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 Anderson County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Pendleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pendleton$277,984
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Pendleton 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.
- Pendleton25.85%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pendleton73
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pendleton17
Zip codes with a Pendleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pendleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.