What salary do you need to live in Spartanburg, SC?

Rent, home values and prices in Spartanburg

Census figures put the median gross rent in the Spartanburg, SC metro at $981 for a one-bedroom, $1,013 for a two-bedroom and $1,142 for a three-bedroom. Moving from one to two bedrooms adds $32 a month, and the third bedroom another $129.

Buying is the other half of the housing picture: owners put the median home in Spartanburg, SC at $225,000. That is only 3.5× the area's median household income of $64,382, a low ratio by national standards.

BEA's Regional Price Parity for the metro is 91.1, where 100 is the US average. In plain terms, the full basket of goods, services and housing costs 8.9% less than average, so $100,000 here buys roughly what $109,829 would at average US prices.

The salary lines for a two-bedroom in Spartanburg

The salary lines for a two-bedroom household land at $27,000 for Tight, $54,000 for Okay and $109,000 for Comfortable. The gap between the Okay and Comfortable lines alone is $55,000, which says how much extra income it takes to make housing feel roomy here rather than merely workable.

Royal, the top band, starts at $301,000. At that income rent is 4% of pay and the median home 0.7× income.

Nothing here is a separate rule of thumb; plug any of these incomes into the calculator with two bedrooms and Spartanburg shows the matching grade.

Four salaries, three home sizes in Spartanburg

Choosing a bigger place in Spartanburg at $75,000 trims the score from 55 to 53 without leaving Okay.

Of the four salaries, $150,000 is the first where a two-bedroom reads Comfortable or better; $100,000 still lands at Okay.

Where Spartanburg falls nationally

Out of 387 metros, Spartanburg has the 267th highest price parity and the 278th highest two-bedroom rent, which puts it in the middle half on overall prices and near the middle on rent.

For a sense of scale, the metros just above and below it on two-bedroom rent are Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ ($1,013) and Greenville, NC ($1,011).

Spartanburg in a South Carolina context

Compared with South Carolina as a whole, two-bedroom rent in Spartanburg is 12% lower ($1,013 vs. $1,148) and the median home is 13% lower ($225,000 vs. $259,000).

Run South Carolina's statewide medians through the same score and Comfortable begins at $132,000; Spartanburg's line is −17% from that.

Within South Carolina, the metros closest to Spartanburg on rent and overall prices are Sumter, SC, Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC, and Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC. Their Comfortable lines for two bedrooms sit at $89,000, $115,000, and $132,000.

Spartanburg's median income on the scale

A household at the Spartanburg median income of $64,382 would see a two-bedroom score of 50 — Okay — with rent at 19% of income. That falls $44,618 short of the $109,000 Comfortable line, a reminder that the typical household here spends a larger share on housing than the Comfortable band allows. For South Carolina as a whole, the median household income of $69,324 scores 47 against statewide rents. Since a household can have two or more earners, compare it with a combined income rather than one paycheck.

Estimates use pre-tax income and public data; they are not financial advice.