Town file
Greer, South Carolina
Greer, South Carolina (Greenville and Spartanburg counties, South Carolina) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 618, "Bloody Rose Petals" (1 August 2025). Greer, South Carolina, is a town of 35,131 people in Greenville and Spartanburg counties.
- Town
- Greer
- County
- Greenville and Spartanburg counties
- State
- South Carolina
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 618
- Approximate location
- 34.933, -82.231
Episode 618 / 1 August 2025 / 74 min / express
Bloody Rose Petals
"James says they are going to Greer, South Carolina, G-R-E-R, in northwestern South Carolina, in both Greenville and Spartanburg counties." about 0:03:43
The case: Murder of Christina Parcel (October 13, 2021). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2025
- Population
- 35,131
- Median household income
- $67,536
- Median home value
- $318,200
History, in brief
- Greer was named for James Manning Greer, a Scottish man, and many of his descendants still live in the region. about 0:05:42
- The town became a town around 1873, when the Richmond and Danville Airline Railway established a line between Atlanta and Charlotte that ran through the area. about 0:05:59
- Greer became a big textile-making place, with factories making clothing and processing cotton into fabrics. about 0:06:12
- Imports began arriving in the 1970s, including cheap T-shirts from China, which badly hurt the local textile industry, and it was predicted that Greer would soon become a ghost town. about 0:06:24
- The town attracted new industry and jobs instead, and its population was up to 35,000, the highest it had ever been, and it was thriving. about 0:06:47
The reviews read out
5 stars
"Since moving to Greer the reviewer has had an overall great experience: it is very calm and relaxed, with little to no disturbance from neighbours and little need to worry about crime or danger."about 0:07:01
3 stars
"All of the roads have potholes and take a long time to be filled, and the recycling programme is subpar at best."about 0:07:38
2 stars
"There is nothing to do in Greer and the people are all bitter and old or mentally unstable teenagers."about 0:09:01
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Traveler's Rest, South Carolina12 miles
- Roebuck, South Carolina16 miles
- Easley, South Carolina21 miles
- Gaffney, South Carolina34 miles
- Townville, South Carolina46 miles
- Kings Mountain, North Carolina54 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.