Six Mile, South Carolina.
Typical home $465,192 (+3.3% in a year). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,462 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,950 +3%
- $450,242$465,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $129,225 +38%
- $335,967$465,192 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.
- Six Mile$2,442
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Six Mile, SC rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Six Mile, Pickens County, South Carolina
Six Mile is a town of 759 people in Pickens County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Pickens County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pickens 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Six Mile is a very small town in Pickens County, in the upper corner of South Carolina. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than is typical across the country, and the typical home is worth more than many people might expect for a place this size. Winters are cool, with January days staying chilly and nights dropping to around freezing, and snow is rare. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and the year is wet, with a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. A fair number of people work from home. Across Pickens County, the largest workplaces include Clemson University, Pickens 01 Schools and PH Baptist Easley Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Keowee is a short drive away, a large lake for time on the water, and the Keowee River is also close by. Memorial Stadium in Clemson, home to the university's football games, is a short drive as well. For a longer outing, Table Rock State Park is a protected area of woods and mountain scenery, and several waterfalls, including Issaqueena Falls, lie a longer drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in Pickens County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pickens County had 40,585 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pickens weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pickens County
- Clemson UniversityUniversity or college6,281
- Pickens 01 SchoolsSchool district2,283FTE
- Reliable Automatic Sprinkler - South CarolinaSprinkler systems, automatic fire, manufacturing886
- AramarkFood service contractors719
- King AsphaltPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction550
- PH Baptist Easley HospitalGeneral hospital422FTE
- Yokohama Industries Americas South CarolinaAutomotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing372
- Allsource EnterprisesFirefighting equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers340
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 68 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,991 people in all across the county; Six Mile has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Six MileRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Six Mile’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Pickens County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Six Mile home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Six Mile$465,192
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Six Mile 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.
- Six Mile26.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Six Mile33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Six Mile6
Zip codes with a Six Mile address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Six Mile — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.