A typical Lynchburg home is worth about $136,000
Down 5.4% in a year, 56% below the South Carolina typical home.
What kind of housing town is Lynchburg?
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What it takes to buy in Lynchburg
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That covers a typical Lynchburg home, with $149K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $950 a month here, $180 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the South Carolina typical property tax (0.48% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Down 16.2% in five years
Slower than South Carolina (25%).
Show as a table
| January | Lynchburg | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $135,000 | $171,000 |
| 2018 | $135,000 | $180,000 |
| 2019 | $137,000 | $190,000 |
| 2020 | $143,000 | $201,000 |
| 2021 | $157,000 | $222,000 |
| 2022 | $175,000 | $260,000 |
| 2023 | $166,000 | $291,000 |
| 2024 | $148,000 | $301,000 |
| 2025 | $154,000 | $306,000 |
| 2026 | $142,000 | $305,000 |
| August 2026 | $136,000 | $306,000 |
A typical Lynchburg home worth $132K in September 2016 is worth about $136K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $950
Renters already here pay a median of $833, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Sumter, SC MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Lynchburg in 2025. The last year with any was 2015 (1 new home).
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $224,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $789,000 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
51% of Lynchburg households own their home
Half of Lynchburg’s homes were built before 1989.
South Carolina: 72% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
On the market in Lynchburg
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Lynchburg buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.