Greenville
at a Glance
Geographic Region: Foothills
Elevation: 1,000 feet
Population: 210,519
Avg. Temperatures:
Winter: 55/34 Spring: 77/53
Summer: 89/68 Fall: 73/51
Avg. Precipitation: 49. 4 inches/year
Median Resident Age: 37
Median Household Income: $33, 144
Median Home Value: $125,800
Hospitals: Greenville Memorial
Hospital, St. Francis Health System
& Patewood Memorial Hospital
Airport: Greenville-Spartanburg
international airport
to Rutherford, from Stone Avenue to
Pendleton Street. And the downtown
neighborhoods are as diverse as they
are vibrant. From the Hampton-Pinckney Historic District to stately
Crescent Avenue to North Main
Street—from Victorian to Southern
plantation-style to English Tudor—
there’s enough architectural variety to
appeal to a wide range of tastes.
There also have been numerous
condos developed in the past five
years including Poinsett Corners,
The Bookends and 55 Riverplace.
The Fieldhouse At West End is being
developed now around the newly built
Greenville Drive Baseball Stadium in
the downtown area which houses the
single A Boston Red Sox affiliate.
Greenville, consistently ranks in
the top 20 percent of 353 cities rated
for cost-of-living by Kiplinger. The
Greenville, SC metropolitan statistical
area overall cost-of-living is 8 percent
lower than the national average.
lifelong learning Opportunities
South Carolina law provides tuition exemption for residents 60 and
older to take classes at state colleges
(nominal fees may apply). Seniors can
generally take any class offered, but
many colleges also have specialized
senior learning programs. In 2012,
a new $6.4 million dollar two-story,
22,000-square-foot building, the Herring Center for Lifelong Learning at
Furman University, was built to house
the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
in Greenville.
Green initiatives & energy
As the name implies, Greenville is
a leader in green initiatives and the
development of sustainable energy.
Everyday more than 3,000 GE employees at a 413 acre plant in Greenville work to build advanced gas
and wind turbine technologies for
customers around the world.
