Greenville County, SC
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 34.89, -82.37.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 77th pct · 684th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 82nd pct · 9th of 46 South Carolina counties · median $213,114
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 35th pct · 1,975th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 57th pct · 20th of 46 South Carolina counties · median +1.2%
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 57th pct · 571st of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 54th pct · 12th of 25 South Carolina counties · median $1,574
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 96th pct · 102nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 100th pct · 1st of 46 South Carolina counties · median 18,411
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 87th pct · 406th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 93rd pct · 4th of 46 South Carolina counties · median $1,061
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 62nd pct · 1,158th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 68th pct · 15th of 46 South Carolina counties · median 4.0
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $336,744 (Sep 2026), +1.6% over one year, +27.4% over five
- 77th pct · 684th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 82nd pct · 9th of 46 South Carolina counties · median $213,114
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville County, SC | $336,744 · +1.6% 1-yr |
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rents #
Typical rent $1,602/mo (Sep 2026), +2.6% over one year; price-to-rent 17.5
- 57th pct · 571st of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 54th pct · 12th of 25 South Carolina counties · median $1,574
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville County, SC | $1,602/mo · +2.6% 1-yr |
Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).
What the typical home costs to carry #
Principal and interest of $1,865 a month on $336,744 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,833 a month: 32.0% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $336,744 × 80% = $269,395, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,865/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,346 × 52 / 12 = $5,833) = 32% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $336,744 / ($1,346 × 52) = 4.8
- price-to-rent = $336,744 / ($1,602 × 12) = 17.5
The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Jobs & wages #
302,812 jobs at 20,646 employers (2026 Q1); +0.4% jobs and +4.3% average weekly wage over the year
- 96th pct · 102nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 100th pct · 1st of 46 South Carolina counties · median 18,411
- counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville County, SC | 302,812 jobs · $1,346/wk · +0.4% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 38,599 | $1,424 | 0.85 | +2.3% |
| Retail trade | 31,651 | $800 | 1.07 | +0.1% |
| Manufacturing | 30,764 | $1,735 | 1.26 | -1.0% |
| Accommodation and food services | 29,159 | $498 | 1.07 | +1.5% |
| Administrative and waste services | 28,158 | $957 | 1.64 | -1.2% |
| Professional and technical services | 24,230 | $2,002 | 1.16 | -1.7% |
| Construction | 18,652 | $1,902 | 1.17 | +1.4% |
| Wholesale trade | 13,647 | $1,888 | 1.18 | +2.4% |
| Finance and insurance | 11,810 | $2,572 | 0.96 | -4.8% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 8,666 | $1,124 | 0.68 | +4.0% |
| Other services | 8,112 | $933 | 0.90 | +2.3% |
| Educational services | 6,284 | $916 | 0.96 | +1.4% |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Drought #
D0 abnormally dry
Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.
US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.
Reservoirs #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
Stream gauges #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Groundwater #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
Water stress #
low (0.00)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$18.2 bn in deposits at 153 offices of 36 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 769, unconcentrated. $3.6 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $3.3 bn, contracts $152.1 m), $11,807 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Truist Bank | $2.2 bn · 12.0% share · 14 offices | |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $2.0 bn · 10.9% share · 13 offices | |
| Bank of America, National Association | $1.8 bn · 10.1% share · 12 offices | |
| Greenville, SC | $3.6 bn FY2026 · $11,807/job |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truist Bank | $2,187,030,000 | 12.0% | 14 |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $1,972,483,000 | 10.9% | 13 |
| Bank of America, National Association | $1,839,553,000 | 10.1% | 12 |
| TD Bank, National Association | $1,740,716,000 | 9.6% | 8 |
| Southern First Bank | $1,722,100,000 | 9.5% | 4 |
| United Community Bank | $1,541,649,000 | 8.5% | 9 |
| Bank of Travelers Rest | $1,424,002,000 | 7.8% | 10 |
| SouthState Bank, National Association | $996,510,000 | 5.5% | 5 |
| First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | $809,189,000 | 4.5% | 9 |
| Pinnacle Bank | $647,811,000 | 3.6% | 5 |
Deposit concentration is 769 across 36 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls unconcentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 36 banks with deposits in the county = 12.0² + 10.9² + 10.1² + … (33 more) = 769
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Federal obligations #
That is $11,807 per covered job, against 302,812 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $3.6 bn / 302,812 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $11,807
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
National context, not this county #
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 17.95 | 2026-10-18 | -2.6% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.20 | 2026-10-19 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 7.00 | 2026-10-13 | +133.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 101.91 | 2026-10-14 | +1.0% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.40 | 2026-10-15 | +0.0% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 652,115.00 | 2026-09-01 | +0.7% |
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
What changed #
Greenville County, SC: 8 findings, 8 noted
noteGreenville County, SC's average weekly wage was 4.3% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +4.3 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteGreenville County, SC's covered employment was 0.4% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +0.4 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteGreenville County, SC's covered employment of 302,812 ranks 1st of 46 South Carolina counties, against a median of 18,411.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 46 South Carolina counties that published jobs.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteGreenville County, SC's covered employment of 302,812 ranks 102nd of 3,221 US counties, against a median of 8,232.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 97 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3221 US counties that published jobs.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteGreenville County, SC's average weekly wage of $1,346 ranks 4th of 46 South Carolina counties, against a median of $1,061.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 93 on the 0-to-100 scale across 46 South Carolina counties that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
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