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Home inspectors in the Sumter, SC metro area
How the Sumter, SC metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for home inspectors: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $559.1M
- On rent and homeowner costs · $13,610 a household
- Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)
- 213
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.2
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 105,067
- −0.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 home inspector in the Sumter metro area. That is 0.2 per 10,000 households.
Households in the Sumter metro area spend about $559.1M a year on rent and homeowner costs, or $13,610 per household, 18% below the U.S. average. That figure is all rent and homeowner costs, used as a measure of housing demand; it is not money home inspectors take in.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as building inspection services in the Sumter metro area: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates put the population change in the Sumter metro area from 2020 to 2025 at −0.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 home inspector on map listings, the Sumter metro area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Sumter metro area compares
The same measures for South Carolina and the whole U.S. Housing spending per listing divides all rent and homeowner costs by the listings counted: a measure of housing demand for each business, not money any of them take in, so it is shown against the U.S. (100) only. Households per establishment divides households by the official count.
| Measure | Sumter metro area | South Carolina | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | 213 | 89 | 100 |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 18,743 | 17,237 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +13.0% | +6.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.3% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on rent and homeowner costs | $13,610 | $14,791 | $16,661 |
| Median household income | $56,693 | $69,324 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 48 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as building inspection services in the Sumter metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Sumter metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 105,067−0.3% since 2020
- Households
- 41,083
- Median age
- 38.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 665 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 157
- Median household income
- $56,693
- Average household income
- $74,835
- Median home value
- $165,300
- Jobs located here
- 37,301
- Daytime population
- 101,774Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every South Carolina market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in South Carolina for home inspectors, numbered among those based in South Carolina (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Sumter metro area marked.
Top metro areas in South Carolina
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Spartanburg, SC | 77 | 5 | 0.3 | 155 | +14.3% | #14 of 243 |
| 2Columbia, SC | 72 | 13 | 0.4 | 146 | +6.0% | #23 of 243 |
| 3Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC | 63 | 19 | 0.5 | 115 | +9.0% | #53 of 243 |
| Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC | 55 | 18 | 0.8 | 72 | +4.7% | #98 of 243 |
| Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | 53 | 78 | 0.7 | 85 | +10.1% | #111 of 243 |
| 4Charleston-North Charleston, SC | 53 | 30 | 0.9 | 69 | +10.7% | #112 of 243 |
| 5Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC | 44 | 10 | 1.0 | 59 | +12.0% | #156 of 243 |
| 6Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC | 30 | 20 | 1.3 | 43 | +20.9% | #217 of 243 |
| 7Florence, SC | 25 | 6 | 0.8 | 68 | +0.9% | #232 of 243 |
| Sumter, SC | Not scored | 1 | 0.2 | 213 | −0.3% |
Other business types in the Sumter metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
- Real estate54
- Real estate agents and brokers55
- Property management55
- Mortgage brokers and lenders32
- Home inspectors
Funeral services
Questions
How many home inspectors are in the Sumter, SC metro area?
There is 1 home inspector on map listings in the Sumter metro area as of September 2026. The listings count home inspectors. No official count is published for building inspection services in the Sumter metro area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Sumter, SC metro area spend on rent and homeowner costs?
About $559.1M a year, or $13,610 per household. That is 18% below the U.S. average (an index of 82, where 100 is the U.S. average). The spending figure is all rent and homeowner costs, a measure of housing demand, not money home inspectors take in. It is estimated from the incomes of the 41,083 households in the Sumter metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Sumter, SC metro area compare with the U.S. for home inspectors?
The Sumter metro area has 1 home inspector on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of home inspectors to household spending, the Sumter metro area would have about 2, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is the Sumter, SC metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Sumter metro area at 105,067 people in 2025, down 0.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 41,083 households. Median household income in the Sumter metro area is $56,693, 30% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Sumter metro area has no market score for home inspectors: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
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