Fountain Inn, South Carolina

57% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 60% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Greenville County, SC, which contains Fountain Inn, rather than for Fountain Inn alone.

There are 18.5 students for every full-time teacher across 2 public schools, more than in most measured places.

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Greenville County, SC: too few schools in Fountain Inn reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly. The schools listed below are this place’s own.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against South Carolina’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Population has grown 31% since 2020, reaching 13,786 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before: 340 units authorized in 2025, 17% below the prior year.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 13,786 residents in 2024, up 5.7% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 505 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

At 42.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, cold wave and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 51% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Fountain Inn's police department reported 244 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 949.

Greenville County records 4.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 13.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 18.8 per 100,000 residents in Greenville County.

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Fountain Inn’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Fountain Inn (Greenville County) rather than Fountain Inn itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Donaldson Fld at 11 miles.

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.