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Home appreciation in Sumter, SC

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Sumter, SC grew an average of 8.9% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+6.9%

2025 over 2024. South Carolina: +4.9%.

5-year, per year

+8.9%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. South Carolina: +10.7%.

10-year, per year

+6.3%

+84.5% in total since 2015. South Carolina: +8.0%.

How does your home compare?

Sumter, SC home prices rose 84.5% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +73.9% to +119.0%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Sumter, SC compares with South Carolina

South Carolina averaged +10.7% a year, putting Sumter, SC behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Sumter, SC ranks 230th out of 409 metros nationwide and 7th out of 8 in South Carolina.

Index, 2005 = 100

Sumter, SC and South Carolina, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearSumter, SCSouth Carolina
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2100102
2005 Q3105104
2005 Q4104107
2006 Q1104108
2006 Q2107110
2006 Q3107112
2006 Q4111114
2007 Q1113115
2007 Q2115116
2007 Q3116116
2007 Q4114117
2008 Q1117118
2008 Q2114117
2008 Q3115115
2008 Q4110116
2009 Q1116117
2009 Q2114116
2009 Q3115112
2009 Q4114111
2010 Q1112109
2010 Q2109108
2010 Q3113109
2010 Q4111108
2011 Q1110106
2011 Q2113103
2011 Q3110104
2011 Q4108105
2012 Q1112103
2012 Q2104103
2012 Q3106103
2012 Q4108103
2013 Q1107103
2013 Q2108104
2013 Q3108104
2013 Q4109104
2014 Q1107104
2014 Q2106106
2014 Q3107107
2014 Q4104108
2015 Q1109110
2015 Q2109111
2015 Q3109112
2015 Q4103113
2016 Q1110114
2016 Q2109116
2016 Q3111119
2016 Q4109119
2017 Q1107120
2017 Q2110122
2017 Q3110125
2017 Q4113125
2018 Q1113128
2018 Q2112130
2018 Q3120131
2018 Q4121132
2019 Q1115134
2019 Q2122137
2019 Q3125138
2019 Q4122140
2020 Q1125142
2020 Q2129143
2020 Q3130145
2020 Q4135148
2021 Q1129152
2021 Q2140160
2021 Q3142169
2021 Q4154177
2022 Q1155185
2022 Q2163197
2022 Q3177204
2022 Q4167206
2023 Q1170207
2023 Q2182213
2023 Q3179219
2023 Q4183221
2024 Q1181223
2024 Q2178229
2024 Q3184231
2024 Q4199233
2025 Q1199237
2025 Q2200239
2025 Q3195242
2025 Q4200243
2026 Q1197245
2026 Q2222248

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.3% a year over ten years, +84.5% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2009, fell 7.7% to its 2014 low, and regained the 2009 level in 2018.

The strongest year was 2022 at +17.2%, and the weakest was 2010 at -3.5%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +6.9%, against +4.9% for the state.

ZIP codes in Sumter, SC

Over the ten years to 2025, the 4 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +73.9% in 29154 to +119.0% in 29153, while the metro as a whole rose 84.5%.

ZIP codes in Sumter, SC ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
29153+14.3%+13.4%+8.2%+119.0%
29040+3.3%+8.9%+6.2%+82.2%
29150+7.1%+7.9%+5.7%+74.3%
29154+2.8%+8.4%+5.7%+73.9%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Sumter, SC and South Carolina, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006105.1+5.1%107.6
2007111.8+6.4%112.4
2008111.7-0.2%113.1
2009112.4+0.7%110.4
2010108.6-3.5%105.4
2011107.9-0.6%101.1
2012105.3-2.3%100.0
2013105.8+0.4%100.4
2014103.8-1.9%102.7
2015105.2+1.4%107.9
2016107.2+1.9%113.3
2017107.6+0.4%119.4
2018114.0+5.9%126.3
2019118.4+3.9%132.9
2020127.0+7.2%140.1
2021138.2+8.8%159.6
2022162.0+17.2%192.1
2023174.6+7.8%208.3
2024181.6+4.0%221.9
2025194.2+6.9%232.8

The 8 measured metros in South Carolina

Measured metros in South Carolina ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC+5.9%+12.4%+8.8%
2Charleston-North Charleston, SC+4.6%+11.6%+9.0%
3Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC+4.6%+10.9%+7.9%
4Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC+5.2%+10.8%+8.5%
5Spartanburg, SC+3.8%+10.7%+8.2%
6Columbia, SC+4.6%+10.1%+7.1%
7Sumter, SC+6.9%+8.9%+6.3%
8Florence, SC+6.5%+8.4%+5.5%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the South Carolina row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2