Sharon, South Carolina.
Typical home $253,764 (-0.2% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$694 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $392 -0%
- $254,155$253,764 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,390 +8%
- $235,373$253,764 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.
- Sharon$1,332
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 46 years.
Typical home values in Sharon, SC fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sharon, York County, South Carolina
Sharon is a town of 462 people in York County. Unemployment in York County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sharon is a very small town in York County, South Carolina, home to far fewer people than most places a visitor would think to call a town. Homes here cost less than in many parts of the country, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is low. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and nights that often dip below freezing, while summers turn properly hot by July; the year brings a fair amount of rain and a little melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in banks, insurance and property. Across York County, some of the largest workplaces are York 04 Schools, Piedmont Medical Center and York County Government. Most people travel a good way to work, and very few work from home. Joblessness across York County has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Close by, Bullock Creek is a river a short drive away, and the James Ross Wildlife Reservation is a protected area just as near. A longer drive brings you to Crowders Mountain State Park, a protected area good for walking, and to Kings Mountain National Military Park, an archaeological site tied to the history of the region. Lake Wylie, also a longer drive away, is the nearest sizable lake on the list.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 106,236 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the York Sse weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- York 04 SchoolsSchool district2,560FTE
- York 03 SchoolsSchool district2,554FTE
- York County GovernmentGovernment base facilities operation support services1,350
- Piedmont Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,265FTE
- York 02 SchoolsSchool district1,198FTE
- City of Rock HillCity and town managers' offices1,100
- Accelerate360 MerchPeriodicals merchant wholesalers970
- Broad River RetailHomefurnishings stores870
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 222 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 31,307 people in all across the county; Sharon has none 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sharon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 York County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Sharon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sharon$253,764
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Sharon7
Zip codes with a Sharon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sharon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.