What is Greenville-Anderson-Greer's Life Score?

Greenville-Anderson-Greer scores 44.7/100 (grade C), rank #283 of 387. Signature composite at the 27th percentile; stamps LOWER · BALANCED · cost MID · wages MID.

What pulls Greenville-Anderson-Greer up or down?

Strongest: childcare (70/100). Weakest: environment (8/100). Profile mark BALANCED; dimension gap 63.

How current is this data?

Federal releases current as of August 2026 (BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA). Cadence varies by series; see methodology.

Metro Life Score

Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC

Below-median composite Life Score — grade C, 27th percentile of the national corpus.

Compiled by PlainCompare

44.7
Life Score / 100: C
Grade (curved): #283
of 387 metros: 27%
composite percentile

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Data updated August 2026

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The verdict

Greenville-Anderson-Greer is below-median composite Life Score — #283 of 387 (44.7/100, grade C, 27th percentile). Carried by childcare at 70/100; held back most by environment at 8/100.

27th
composite percentile: #283
of 387 peers: 52nd
cost dimension percentile: 51st
wages dimension percentile

Life Score shape · LOWER · BALANCED · signature composite

Greenville-Anderson-Greer: bottom-third composite — where the drag concentrates

Greenville-Anderson-Greer sits in the bottom third of the metro corpus on composite (#283 of 387, 44.7/100, 27th percentile). Stamps LOWER · BALANCED; Environment at 8/100 is the main drag; Childcare (70/100) keeps the floor. Cost/wage marks MID/MID. According to PlainCompare's federal Life Score corpus ranking, Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC ranks #283 of 387 metros by composite Life Score (highest = #1) and #185 of 387 by cost-of-living dimension score (highest = #1). Methodology.

BEA RPP 93.3 (rent-RPP 76.8). BLS median salary $64,232, 423,180 jobs (Fast Food and Counter Workers, Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand, Retail Salespersons). HUD 2BR FMR $1,173/mo (studio $1,022).

FBI UCR (SC): 439 violent, 1988 property/100K. NCES: 13.8:1 ratio, 7.2% charter. DOL infant childcare $7,732/yr. EPA: 34 Superfund sites (SC).

Where Greenville-Anderson-Greer sits among all US metros

Composite Life Score vs the national field

45 27th percentile higher than 27% of 387 US metros

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Source PlainCompare composite of BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA data · August 2026

How the 44.7 is built

Greenville-Anderson-Greer's Life Score, decomposed

Cost of Living 10.5 (23%) Wages 10.2 (23%) Rent 10.5 (23%) Safety 2.7 (6%) Schools 3.1 (7%) Childcare 7.0 (16%) Environment 0.8 (2%)

Dimension detail

How Greenville-Anderson-Greer scores, dimension by dimension

Score Breakdown

Dimension Scores

Cost of Living 52/100 (20%) Average

Wages 51/100 (20%) Average

Rent 70/100 (15%) Average

Safety 18/100 (15%) Below average

Schools 31/100 (10%) Average

Childcare 70/100 (10%) Average

Environment 8/100 (10%) Bottom 10%

Key Data Points

93.3

Cost Index (RPP)

$64,232

Avg Median Salary

$1,173

2BR Fair Market Rent

439

Violent Crime/100K (SC)

13.8:1

Student-Teacher Ratio

$7,732

Infant Childcare/yr (SC)

Superfund Sites (SC)

423,180

Total Employment

Geography used: crime, schools, childcare, and environment cards above are SC state-level when metro-specific feeds are unavailable, see the scope key at the top of this page.

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Ranking Context

Greenville-Anderson-Greer outranks 27% of U.S. metros.

Rank	Metro	Score	Grade
#280	Corvallis, OR	44.8	C
#281	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	44.8	C
#282	Bellingham, WA	44.9	C
#283	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	44.7	C
#284	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	44.7	C
#285	Asheville, NC	44.6	C
#286	Sherman-Denison, TX	44.6	C

Quality vs. Affordability

Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC is bottom 27% lowest-quality nationally and also top 48% most affordable -- a rarer combination among its composite-quality peers, where overall rank and affordability rank usually diverge more than this.

Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC (highlighted) among its 12 nearest composite-Life-Score peers, out of 387 tracked metros nationally. Crosshairs mark this peer neighborhood's own median composite score and cost-of-living score. Cost-of-living score is already inverted so higher = more affordable.

SC Metro Scores

Florence, SC B- 50.3 Spartanburg, SC C+ 45.7 Columbia, SC C- 41.2 Sumter, SC C- 39.9 Charleston-North Charleston, SC F 33.0 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC F 32.8

Read with Greenville-Anderson-Greer

Nearest composite peers and cost poles for Greenville-Anderson-Greer (LOWER · BALANCED · MID/MID), replacing the fixed Explore/Guides strip.

Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA

ABS(composite) peer at 44.7 (Δ 0.0 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade C vs this page's LOWER · BALANCED · MID/MID.

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

ABS(composite) peer at 44.8 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade C vs this page's LOWER · BALANCED · MID/MID.

Corvallis, OR

ABS(composite) peer at 44.8 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade C vs this page's LOWER · BALANCED · MID/MID.

Asheville, NC

ABS(composite) peer at 44.6 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); lower Life Score · grade C vs this page's LOWER · BALANCED · MID/MID.

Lebanon, PA (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 53/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp MID vs this metro's MID.

Morgantown, WV (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 52/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp MID vs this metro's MID.

Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC relocation guide

Stamp-branched guide for LOWER · BALANCED · MID/MID - how to read federal Life Score inputs before a move.

Using Greenville-Anderson-Greer's bottom-third Life Score

Greenville-Anderson-Greer scores 44.7/100 overall, but Childcare (70.3) and Environment (7.5) sit 62.8 points apart, so decide which of the two matters more to you before leaning on the total.

Childcare is the strongest of Greenville-Anderson-Greer's seven dimensions (weighted 10% in the composite); if it is your priority, this is where the metro earns its rank. See all seven dimensions
Environment is the weakest (weighted 10% in the composite); if it is a dealbreaker, weigh it before the ranking does. Rank metros on the composite
Florence is the nearest comparison this page can offer; put the two side by side on the same seven dimensions. Compare with Florence

A low composite is a weighted blend; individual dimensions can still be strong.

Data from BEA, HUD, FBI UCR, BLS OES, NCES, DOL, and EPA. Not affiliated with the U.S. Government.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Greenville-Anderson-Greer Life Score 44.7/100 · signature composite · retrieved and formatted by PlainCompare

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

All federal data sources used on this page

U.S. Census Bureau ACS - multi-dimension demographic + housing + income aggregates for cross-area comparison. census.gov/programs-surveys/acs
BEA Regional Economic Accounts - GDP, personal income, employment by state and metro. bea.gov/data/regional
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) - wage estimates for comparable-area indexing. bls.gov/oes
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) - crime statistics for safety-score component. fbi.gov/ucr
NCES Common Core of Data - public-school quality indicators by area. nces.ed.gov/ccd
EPA AirNow + Air Quality System (AQS) - air-quality measurements by area. epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data
HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) - county and metro housing-cost indicators. huduser.gov/datasets/fmr