Laurens, SC Homes for Sale

Laurens is the county seat of Laurens County, a courthouse town laid out in the 1700s where five roads met and still built around that same public square. The square holds the courthouse, more than 140,000 square feet of storefronts, and the city-run Capitol Theatre, which shows free films on the second and fourth Friday of each month. Housing runs from early-twentieth-century homes on the older streets near downtown to ranch and split-level subdivisions built through the postwar decades and newer construction out toward the lake.

Getting around

US-76 and US-221 cross in town, SC-72 runs east toward Clinton and west toward Greenwood, and SC-14 heads north. I-385 is the commuting road that matters most: it puts Laurens roughly half an hour from Simpsonville and the Golden Strip, and under an hour from downtown Greenville. That combination — a small county seat with a real interstate connection — is what brings most buyers here.

Schools

The city is served by Laurens County School District 55, which operates E.B. Morse, Ford, Laurens and Waterloo elementary schools, Laurens Middle and Sanders Middle, and Laurens District High School. Elementary and middle assignments are set by address, so confirm a specific street with the district office on Hillcrest Drive.

Weekends

• Lake Rabon, 540 acres owned by the Laurens County Water and Sewer Commission, with a public boat ramp, fishing pier and picnic area
• The Little River Park on Main Street, with playground equipment and putt-putt, and the one-mile Little River Trail that loops from it along the Little River and Reedy Fork Creek
• Musgrove Mill State Historic Site, a Revolutionary War battlefield on the Enoree River with fishing, boating and geocaching
• Lake Greenwood, 11,000 acres and more than 200 miles of shoreline, a short drive southwest

Buyers who want more house and land for the money than the Greenville County suburbs ask, and who do not mind a commute, tend to find what they are looking for here.