Starr, South Carolina.
Typical home $237,788 (+1.2% in a year). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$736 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,789 +1%
- $235,000$237,788 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,239 +27%
- $186,550$237,788 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.
- Starr$1,248
- 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 Starr, SC rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Starr, Anderson County, South Carolina
Starr is a town of 165 people in Anderson County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Anderson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Anderson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Starr is a very small town in Anderson County, South Carolina, where almost every home is lived in by its owners. Poverty is rare here, and household incomes in the county sit near the middle of what is typical for the state. Homes are valued at a level that reflects a quiet, mostly residential community.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Very few work from home. Across Anderson County, some of the largest workplaces are AnMed Health, Anderson 05 Schools and Robert Bosch, which makes gasoline engine parts. Job numbers across the county held steady over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spot is Sadlers Creek State Park, a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Hartwell, a large reservoir, and to Memorial Stadium in Clemson, where the university's football team plays. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Anderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anderson County had 72,704 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anderson County Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anderson County
- Anmed HealthGeneral hospital2,838FTE
- Anderson 05 SchoolsSchool district1,755FTE
- Anderson 01 SchoolsSchool district1,398FTE
- Robert BoschGasoline engine parts, mechanical, automotive and truck, manufacturing1,200
- EandI EngineeringSwitchgear and switchboard apparatus manufacturing1,141
- First Quality Tissue SoutheastPaper mills973
- Anderson UniversityUniversity or college838
- City of AndersonCity and town managers' offices695
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 130 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,020 people in all across the county; Starr has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Starr’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 Anderson County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Starr home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Starr$237,788
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Starr9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Starr address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Starr — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.