Pomaria, South Carolina.
Typical home $292,959 (+7.8% in a year). Newberry, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$815 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,206 +8%
- $271,753$292,959 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,848 +14%
- $256,111$292,959 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.
- Pomaria$1,538
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Pomaria, SC rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pomaria, Newberry County, South Carolina
Pomaria is a town of 127 people in Newberry County. Unemployment in Newberry County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newberry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pomaria is a very small town in Newberry County, South Carolina, with a population that makes it feel more like a crossroads community than a town center. Homes here are valued well above what the county's household incomes might suggest, which says something about how many people have settled in for the long run. Winters are mild and brief, with cool days in January and only a dusting of snow in a typical year.
Work. People who live in Pomaria work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also well represented. A small number work from home. Across Newberry County, the largest workplaces include Newberry 01 Schools, Newberry County Memorial Hospital and Newberry College, and unemployment in the county has eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Water is the main draw close by. Monticello Reservoir and Parr Reservoir are both a short drive away, and Lake Murray, a larger reservoir, is a longer drive. For a day out, Riverbanks Zoo and the Columbia Museum of Art are a longer drive away. Summers are hot and winters gentle, so outdoor trips are possible through much of the year.
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- 4%work from home
What people in Newberry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newberry County had 14,441 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Little Mountain weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newberry County
- Newberry 01 SchoolsSchool district858FTE
- Newberry County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital372FTE
- Newberry CollegeUniversity or college319
- Prosperity Plywood296
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- KRA OperationsLaundry equipment, household-type, manufacturing280
- Valmont Industries222
- Trane Technologies220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 34 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,443 people in all across the county; Pomaria has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pomaria’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 Newberry County and the Newberry, SC metro.
Pomaria home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pomaria$292,959
- 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.
Zip codes with a Pomaria address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pomaria — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.