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SheetSC-SIMPSONVILLE-SC · Simpsonville, SC 25,125 pop · income 61st pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Simpsonville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Simpsonville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Conway · lowest
54,841
Conway · lowest
54,841 median HH income
21.9% of the leader · rank #1
Church Hill · near
79,219
Church Hill · near
79,219 median HH income
31.7% of the leader · rank #2
York · near
79,231
York · near
79,231 median HH income
31.7% of the leader · rank #3
Simpsonville · this city
79,233
Simpsonville · this city
79,233 median HH income
31.7% of the leader · rank #4
Durham · near
79,234
Durham · near
79,234 median HH income
31.7% of the leader · rank #5
Bridgeport · near
79,247
Bridgeport · near
79,247 median HH income
31.7% of the leader · rank #6
University Pa… · highest
250,001
University Pa… · highest
250,001 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Simpsonville on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 25,125.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Simpsonville - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Simpsonville places in the 61st percentile for household income and the 18th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
61st
percentile, household income
59th
percentile, home value
46th
percentile, median rent
18th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Simpsonville, SC
South Carolina's Simpsonville is a small city, with 25,125 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Simpsonville households earn a median of $79,233 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.5%. Simpsonville's housing stock carries a median value of $267,500, and the median resident age is 36.4 years. About 34.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 67.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 142 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 66% from five years earlier. Simpsonville's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2821.9 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in South Carolina run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts South Carolina at 93.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,155 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts South Carolina's average monthly utility costs around $224 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.7 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Simpsonville's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to work and mobility to reported crime to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Simpsonville, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Simpsonville?
The NCES join finds 16 public schools within the city match. 34.0% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
What does the journey to work look like in Simpsonville?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Simpsonville?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2821.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 24% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Simpsonville?
Within South Carolina, the closest population matches are North Augusta (24,928 residents, $90,132 income); Socastee (24,629 residents, $59,826 income); Mauldin (25,985 residents, $81,027 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Dedham, MA (25,109 residents); Mountain House, CA (25,108 residents); University Park, TX (25,104 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Simpsonville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,826 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +20.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 142 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+20.4%
2025 estimate
28,459
2020 estimate
23,633
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Simpsonville?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Household income
$79,233
Home value
$267,500
Value / income
3.4×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 4.5% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
93.7 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, South Carolina average
C+
City profile score · Simpsonville, SC
62/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living B
93.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate B-
4.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$79,233
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
214 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Simpsonville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 70/100 (B) · 93.7 index
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.5%
Bachelor's+ share: 65/100 (B-) · 34.0%
Household income: 59/100 (C) · $79,233
Violent crime: 46/100 (D) · 214 /100k
Where Simpsonville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Simpsonville's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Simpsonville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Simpsonville, SC (this city): home $267,500, crime 2,822/100k
Dedham, MA : home $630,400, crime 1,597/100k
University Park, TX : home $1,766,700, crime 1,498/100k
Muskego, WI : home $390,900, crime 1,544/100k
Avon, OH : home $377,100, crime 970/100k
North Augusta, SC : home $220,500, crime 444/100k
Mauldin, SC : home $242,100, crime 1,600/100k
Conway, SC : home $236,300, crime 2,419/100k
Lexington, SC : home $271,200, crime 1,684/100k
Easley, SC : home $243,100, crime 2,035/100k
How does Simpsonville compare to other US cities?
Where Simpsonville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income61% higher than other cities
Home value59% pricier than other cities
Median rent46% pricier than other cities
Safety18% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just South Carolina and the picture shifts: Simpsonville ranks #60 of 127 South Carolina cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Simpsonville against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to South Carolina only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
South Carolina-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Simpsonville near the bottom of South Carolina's cities
Among the 441 South Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Simpsonville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Simpsonville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#68 of 403
83rd percentile in South Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 441
0th percentile in South Carolina
Median Home Value
#69 of 404
83rd percentile in South Carolina
Poverty Rate
#352 of 439
20th percentile in South Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#80 of 441
81st percentile in South Carolina
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within South Carolina only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
61st percentile nationally for median household income · 18th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Simpsonville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Simpsonville's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Simpsonville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$267,50041st percentilemore affordable than 41% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Simpsonville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,467 of 15,516
More affordable than 45% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,369 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.4×, Simpsonville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,467 of 15,516 and #1,369 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$79,233Simpsonville, SC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Simpsonville, SC median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Simpsonville, SC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,125
Median Income
$79,233
Median Home Value
$267,500
Median Age
36.4
Poverty Rate
4.5%
Labor force participation
67.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2821.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
214.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2607.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
16
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Simpsonville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
23,633 residents
2021
24,777 residents
2022
26,814 residents
2023
27,684 residents
2024
28,247 residents
2025
28,459 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
142
housing units authorized
Single-Family
142
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
421
297
124
$50.2M
2020
591
303
288
$58.4M
2021
949
532
417
$123.6M
2022
331
331
0
$64.0M
2023
183
183
0
$36.8M
2024
142
142
0
$35.5M
Permit volume decreased 66% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.8%
Carpool
5.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
13.4%
Other
1.8%
Based on 12,858 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
South Carolina statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $224
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across South Carolina at $224 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are South Carolina statewide averages, not a meter reading for Simpsonville. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
South Carolina's BEA cost-of-living index is 93.7 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Simpsonville is $1,155/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to South Carolina statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a South Carolina statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Simpsonville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Simpsonville compares to similar-size South Carolina cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.