Williamston, South Carolina.
Typical home $275,462 (+1.7% in a year). Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$854 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,475 +2%
- $270,987$275,462 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,298 +34%
- $206,164$275,462 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.
- Williamston$1,446
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Williamston, SC rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamston, Anderson County, South Carolina
Williamston is a town of 4,043 people in Anderson County. Half its households earn more than $64,389 a year and half less, against $66,651 across Anderson County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% 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 residents work in manufacturing, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamston is a small town in Anderson County, with a population that sits around the middle of adult life in age. Incomes run a little below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cool and short, with very little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Across Anderson County, some of the largest workplaces are AnMed Health, Anderson 05 Schools and Robert Bosch. Relatively few adults have a four-year degree, and a typical commute is a fairly long one, with only a small number of people working from home.
Things to do. Watermelon Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake Hartwell is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Reedy River Falls Historic Park and Greenway, a waterfall in Greenville, is also a longer drive. Memorial Stadium in Clemson is another longer drive, for those who follow college football.
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- 1,750households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents 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 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Pelzer weather station, 2 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; Williamston has two 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 wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of WilliamstonRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamston’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 Anderson County and the Greenville-Anderson, SC metro.
Williamston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamston$275,462
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Williamston listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Williamston34.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Williamston65
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Williamston12
Zip codes with a Williamston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.