Roebuck, South Carolina.
Typical home $281,475 (+1.0% in a year). Spartanburg, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$840 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,739 +1%
- $278,736$281,475 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,899 +28%
- $220,576$281,475 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.
- Roebuck$1,477
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Roebuck, SC rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roebuck, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
Roebuck, in Spartanburg County, had 2,357 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $51,204 a year and half less, against $66,234 across Spartanburg County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Spartanburg County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Spartanburg 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roebuck is a small community in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and most days it runs at a quiet, settled pace. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a typical home is valued well above what a year of local household earnings would cover. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest weather in January, and summers get hot, especially in July. Snow is rare and rain is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Roebuck itself are Siemens Industry, which makes control panels and electric power equipment, the Food Lion grocery store, and Synthomer USA, a chemical manufacturer. Joblessness across Spartanburg County has eased a little compared with a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve is a botanical garden for slow walks, and Croft State Park is a protected area with room to get outdoors. Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds, also a short drive off, is a race track. With a longer drive, Lake Bowen offers a reservoir for time on the water, and Cowpens National Battlefield is a historic site worth a day trip.
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- 1,202households
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Spartanburg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Spartanburg County had 157,484 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Spartanburg Sse weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Roebuck
- Siemens Industry Inc - RoebuckControl panels, electric power distribution, manufacturing755
- Food LionGrocery stores79
- Synthomer USA LLC RoebuckChemical manufacturing54
- SupplyOne SpartanburgCorrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard35
- Colonial Fuel & Lubricant Services, RoebuckTanker trucking, local22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 945 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roebuck’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 Spartanburg County and the Spartanburg, SC metro.
Roebuck home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roebuck$281,475
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Roebuck listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Roebuck32.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Roebuck27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Roebuck8
Zip codes with a Roebuck address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roebuck — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.