Home Business in South Carolina (2026)

Aiken County allows a home occupation only where Table 1 of the zoning code lists it as a conditional use. The business…

Anderson County allows home occupations in any residential district if no more than two outside workers are employed…

Beaufort County allows a home business as an accessory use only if it stays incidental to residential use, runs from no…

Berkeley County treats home occupations as a conditional accessory use in the unincorporated area, never a stand-alone…

Charleston allows a home occupation in any zoning district as an accessory use once the resident signs a Home…

Home occupations are allowed as an accessory use to any residential or agricultural use if they stay subordinate to the…

Columbia allows home occupations as an accessory use to a dwelling under Sec. 17-4.3(d)(6), but caps the business at 25…

Dorchester County lets residents run a business out of their home only as a Home Occupation under Zoning and Land…

Unincorporated Florence County allows home occupations as a conditional use under Code Section 30-98, capping the…

Greenville County's zoning ordinance permits home occupations as accessory uses in residential districts, provided they…

Horry County lets most residential parcels run a home occupation under Section 927, but caps it at 35% of the…

Running a business from a house in unincorporated Lexington County requires a separate zoning permit under Zoning…

North Charleston permits a customary home occupation as a conditional use only if it stays invisible from outside…

Home occupations are allowed by right in any Pageland residential district under Sec. 4-6, but only if they clear a…

A home occupation in unincorporated Richland County must meet LDC standards: only residents may work there, no retail…

Rock Hill, South Carolina lets small home-based businesses operate as an accessory use in any home, but Zoning…

Simpsonville requires a City business license before operating a home occupation. Existing home occupations may…

Spartanburg County's ULMO allows a home occupation by right if it meets the §3.06 standards - including no more than…

Running a business from home in unincorporated York County requires an annual home occupation permit under § 155.671…

In Aiken County's RC, RD, RM, and RH5 residential zoning districts, a home occupation cannot display any sign at all…

Berkeley County bars any visible sign of a home-based business from the street or a neighboring lot, which rules out…

Columbia's home occupation standards flatly bar signage: Sec. 17-4.3(d)(6)e says there shall be no sign, and no change…

Home occupations in unincorporated Florence County may post no sign at all. Code Section 30-98(4) states flatly that no…

Pageland allows no signage at all for a home occupation. Sec. 4-6.D of the Zoning Ordinance is a flat rule: home-based…

Charleston's home occupation rules bar any exterior sign for a home-based business, along with exterior displays…

A home occupation in unincorporated Lexington County cannot display goods or otherwise show from the outside that the…

Anderson County restricts home occupation signage to a single non-illuminated nameplate no larger than two square feet…

A home occupation may display one non-illuminated sign no larger than 216 square inches, attached to the house or a…

A home-based business in unincorporated Greenville County may display exactly one sign, and it must be non-illuminated…

Horry County limits every home-based business to one sign: nonilluminated, no more than two square feet, and mounted…

North Charleston caps signage for a home-based business at two square feet, folded inside an eight-square-foot total…

Richland County's Land Development Code allows one small, non-illuminated sign for a home occupation, not exceeding two…

A home occupation may display one sign per lot. It must be a wall or hanging sign no larger than four square feet, may…

A home occupation in zoned unincorporated Spartanburg County may show no exterior indication of the business other than…

A home occupation sign in unincorporated York County is limited by the Unified Development Ordinance, which caps size…

Beaufort County limits a home business to a single non-illuminated yard sign that meets the county's Yard Sign Type…

Rock Hill, South Carolina allows a home-based business to post one small identifying sign without a permit. Zoning…

Home occupations in unincorporated Lexington County cannot generate traffic beyond what a normal residential setting…

Aiken County limits customer and delivery traffic generated by a home occupation to no more than what would normally…

Beaufort County caps the extra vehicle trips a home business can add to its street at 20 trips per day, on average, and…

Berkeley County limits home occupation client traffic in the unincorporated area: visits are allowed only from 6:00…

Charleston's home occupation ordinance bars a home-based business from generating more traffic than would normally…

Columbia caps how much traffic a home business can generate: Sec. 17-4.3(d)(6)i bars significantly more delivery…

Every home occupation permitted under Dorchester County's Zoning and Land Development Standards must avoid impacting…

Pageland caps the traffic a home-based business can generate at whatever a residential street already sees. Sec. 4-6 of…

Rock Hill, South Carolina limits how many people can be at a home-based business at once. Zoning Ordinance §…

York County caps home-based businesses at six client visits a day, one visit per client, between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00…

A home occupation in unincorporated Florence County cannot generate traffic beyond what a residential neighborhood…

South Carolina calls its cottage food law the Home-based Food Production Law, and it is one of the least…

Horry County's home occupation ordinance flatly bars the two uses that cover most cottage food sales: "Restaurants or…

South Carolina's home-based food law lets you make and sell non-potentially hazardous foods from your home with no…

South Carolina's Cottage Food Law (SC Code Section 44-1-143) lets residents make and sell non-potentially-hazardous…

South Carolina lets residents run a "home-based food production operation" selling nonpotentially hazardous foods…

South Carolina's Home-Based Food Production law lets you sell non-potentially-hazardous foods (baked goods, candy) made…

South Carolina's home-based food production law, S.C. Code § 44-1-143, governs cottage food sales in unincorporated…

South Carolina lets you sell non-hazardous homemade foods from a Dorchester County kitchen with no SCDHEC permit, no…

South Carolina's Home-Based Food Production Law (S.C. Code 44-1-143) lets Spartanburg County residents make and sell…

South Carolina has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, so there is no route for selling meals cooked…

South Carolina requires family childcare homes serving more than a limited number of unrelated children to register or…

Horry County has no separate zoning license for home daycares; South Carolina law controls them directly. A "family…

A home day care in unincorporated Lexington County needs a special exception from the Board of Zoning Appeals once it…

Aiken County treats family day-care homes as a residential accessory use under its zoning table, permitted by right in…

Anderson County zoning lists a child care home among the home occupations allowed by right in any residential district…

Beaufort County treats a home daycare serving up to eight clients as a by-right use in nearly every residential zone…

Berkeley County zoning allows a family day care home as an accessory use to a residential dwelling only, capped at six…

Charleston lets family and group day care homes operate as an accessory use in every residential zoning district, but…

Columbia's Unified Development Ordinance allows a family child care home as an accessory use in a single-family…

Dorchester County treats a home daycare or educational program as a type of home occupation under Zoning and Land…

Florence County zoning caps a home-based day care at six children. Under Florence County Code § 30-311's definition…

A day care home serving five or fewer persons is a permitted home occupation in Greenville County's residential zones…

Pageland's zoning table permits a Family Day Care Home as a right-by-use in every residential district but bars it…

South Carolina lets a resident care for up to six children in a "family childcare home," which must register with SC…

Rock Hill treats an in-home day care as a residential accessory use under the city's Zoning Ordinance, not a full…

Child care is allowed as a home occupation limited to a maximum of six children, and the rear yard must be enclosed by…

A home daycare in Spartanburg County is a 'family childcare home' under S.C. Code 63-13-20 - a residence caring for no…

A family child care home serving six or fewer children doesn't need a York County home occupation permit at all: §…