Greenwood County, SC Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Greenwood County Code Sec. 6-3-33(e) governs signs in the R-1 single-family district, and subsection (3)a specifically allows one business identification sign for each dwelling in which there is conducted a permitted home occupation, capped at four square feet and required to be nonilluminated. That is far smaller than the 20-square-foot cap the same subsection gives 'other permitted uses' like churches, or the 64-square-foot cap for a subdivision entrance sign. The identical four-square-foot, nonilluminated home-occupation sign rule repeats word for word in the R-5 multi-family district (Sec.

6-3-36(e)) and the R-7 mobile home district (Sec. 6-3-38(e)), so the limit does not change based on which residential district the home occupation sits in. Signs of duly constituted governmental bodies, mailbox address plates and street numbers do not count against this limit and need no permit at all, but this business identification sign does require a sign permit before it goes up, since it falls in the 'permanent signs for which a permit is required' category rather than the no-permit categories the same subsection lists first.