Simpsonville, South Carolina.
Typical home $377,501 (+1.3% in a year), asking rent $1,848 (+2.7%). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,080 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,879 +1%
- $372,622$377,501 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,544 +27%
- $296,957$377,501 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.
- Simpsonville$1,981
- 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 Simpsonville, SC rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Simpsonville, SC rose 2.7% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Simpsonville runs $697/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $844 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,545 a month against $1,848 rent: a $1,981 mortgage payment, plus $159 property tax and $404 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Simpsonville
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$2,545
- Renting$1,848
- Mortgage only$1,981
Property tax · $159/mo 0.51% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Greenville County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $404/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 Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina
Simpsonville is a city of 23,354 people in Greenville County. Half its households earn more than $82,457 a year and half less, against $76,932 across Greenville County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Simpsonville was 3.5% in August 2026, and Greenville County had 1.8% 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. Simpsonville is a city in Greenville County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cool and fairly mild, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Some of the biggest workplaces in Simpsonville are Walmart, PH Hillcrest Hospital and Publix Super Markets. Jobs across Greenville County have grown over the past year, and unemployment in Simpsonville has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Conestee Nature Preserve, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits a walk outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Paris Mountain State Park, another protected area, and to Reedy River Falls Historic Park and Greenway, set around a waterfall. The Greenville County Museum of Art is also a longer drive away for a quieter afternoon.
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- 10,143households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenville County had 302,324 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fountain Inn Southwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Simpsonville
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters404
- PH Hillcrest HospitalGeneral hospital270FTE
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores202
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter172
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores166
- American PlasticsBadges, plastics, manufacturing155
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores155
- Food LionGrocery stores88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,429 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of SimpsonvilleRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of SimpsonvilleRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Simpsonville’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 Greenville County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Simpsonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Simpsonville$377,501
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Simpsonville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 28 days — 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.
- Simpsonville36.76%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Simpsonville28
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Simpsonville570
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Simpsonville161
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Simpsonville$392,405
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Simpsonville98.47%
Zip codes with a Simpsonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Simpsonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Simpsonville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29681 | Simpsonville | 68,650 | $1,884 | $402,519 |
| 29680 | Simpsonville | 35,770 | $1,771 | $342,180 |