Pine Ridge, South Carolina.
Typical home $259,858 (-0.5% in a year). Columbia, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$757 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,335 -1%
- $261,193$259,858 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,253 +32%
- $196,605$259,858 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.
- Pine Ridge$1,364
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Pine Ridge, SC fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pine Ridge, Lexington County, South Carolina
Pine Ridge is a town of 2,167 people in Lexington County. Half its households earn more than $95,000 a year and half less, against $77,408 across Lexington County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pine Ridge is a small town in Lexington County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and fewer residents live in poverty than one might expect. A good number of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in most years, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property also employing many. Across Lexington County, Lexington Medical Center, Lexington 01 Schools and Amazon are among the largest workplaces. The drive to work is a fairly short one, and a modest share of people work from home. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year ago.
Things to do. Lake Murray, a reservoir, and Congaree National Park are a longer drive away and suit a day outdoors. Closer to home, Riverbanks Zoo and the Columbia Museum of Art are a short drive away, along with the W. Gordon Belser Arboretum, a botanical garden. Williams-Brice Stadium is also a short drive away for those who follow football.
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- 1,050households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 10%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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lexington County
- Lexington Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,402FTE
- Lexington 01 SchoolsSchool district4,290FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,362
- County of LexingtonExecutive and legislative office combinations1,819
- Michelin North America, US5Tires manufacturing1,735
- Lexington 02 SchoolsSchool district1,294FTE
- Midlands Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,162
- Michelin Tire Corporation (US7)Motor vehicle tires manufacturing984
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 266 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 47,435 people in all across the county; Pine Ridge has none 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of Pine RidgeRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pine Ridge’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.
Pine Ridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pine Ridge$259,858
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pine Ridge12
Zip codes with a Pine Ridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pine Ridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.