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South Carolina building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 46 counties in South Carolina. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
32,199
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
46
All scored 0–100
Top market
Horry
5,267 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in South Carolina by permit volume

Most-active markets in the state over the last 12 months.

  1. Horry County5,267
  2. Spartanburg County3,259
  3. Greenville County3,224
  4. Richland County1,992
  5. Charleston County1,845
  6. York County1,683
  7. Lexington County1,620
  8. Berkeley County1,534
  9. Dorchester County1,288
  10. Aiken County1,271

Top home builders in South Carolina

Most-active licensed builders across the state in the last 12 months.

Per-permit builder attribution not yet available for South Carolina. Census Bureau aggregate data is loaded.

All 46 counties in South Carolina

Abbeville 125 Aiken 1,271 Allendale 2 Anderson 1,164 Bamberg 27 Barnwell 23 Beaufort 784 Berkeley 1,534 Calhoun 34 Charleston 1,845 Cherokee 181 Chester 231 Chesterfield 106 Clarendon 85 Colleton 32 Darlington 212 Dillon 32 Dorchester 1,288 Edgefield 128 Fairfield 55 Florence 430 Georgetown 335 Greenville 3,224 Greenwood 216 Hampton 20 Horry 5,267 Jasper 1,069 Kershaw 322 Lancaster 785 Laurens 795 Lee 13 Lexington 1,620 Marion 57 Marlboro 3 McCormick 79 Newberry 136 Oconee 616 Orangeburg 71 Pickens 631 Richland 1,992 Saluda 44 Spartanburg 3,259 Sumter 274 Union 72 Williamsburg 27 York 1,683

For LBM & trade operators serving South Carolina

South Carolina is a tracked market for PermitFocus. If you're an LBM (lumber and building materials) operator, roofing contractor, HVAC company, plumber, concrete supplier, doors/windows dealer, paint distributor, or flooring contractor selling into new single-family construction — South Carolina's 32,199 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

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