Hammett Bridge Road area, Greer: homes, schools, parks

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the City of Greer’s GIS map service (city limits, address points and major thoroughfares) and its 2025 comprehensive plan update (PDF), Greenville County Parks, Recreation and Tourism’s East Riverside Park page, the federal NCES school directory, Greenville County Schools’ Find Your School, the state’s 2025 school report cards, Zillow Research and OpenStreetMap.

Southwest Greer, between Brushy Creek Road and I-85, holds more homes than any other part of the city. Riverside High and Riverside Middle sit on Hammett Bridge Road and Woodland Elementary on Gibbs Shoals Road, all inside the city limits, and the homes around them are mostly zoned for those schools.

What this means for you

• Zoned high school: Riverside High for most addresses, with Riverside Middle and Woodland, Brushy Creek or Buena Vista Elementary; Greer High in the northeast corner. Check an address in Find Your School.
• Home value: $369,431 in ZIP 29650 in September 2026, according to the Zillow Home Value Index.
• Nearest interstate exit: I-85 Exit 56, SC 14, about 3.1 miles by road.

Part of our Greer neighborhoods guide.

Where it is

The city does not draw neighborhood boundaries. On this page the area means the residential addresses inside Greer’s city limits in Greenville County south of Brushy Creek Road and west of Main Street and South Highway 14, down to I-85. The main roads through it are Hammett Bridge Road, East Suber Road, South Buncombe Road and Gibbs Shoals Road.

The city’s address file has about 5,200 residential addresses there, more than any other area in this guide, all in Greenville County and nearly all in ZIP code 29650. About 60% are single-family homes and about a quarter townhomes, with some apartments and an assisted living community. Streets include Spring Crossing Circle, Riverside Chase Circle, Yellow Fox Road, Chartwell Drive, Enoree Springs Road, Highgate Circle, Kingscreek Drive and River Birch Way.

The city’s comprehensive plan update says Woodland Elementary finished a renovation and addition of 38,000 square feet with 25 classrooms, and that the roundabout at Gibbs Shoals and West Phillips roads, finished in 2023, replaced what had been one of the deadliest intersections in the city.

Schools

We checked 46 residential addresses across the area in Greenville County Schools’ Find Your School tool on Oct. 16, 2026; it matched all 46 to an exact address. Ratings are the overall ratings on the 2025 state report cards (the 2024-25 school year), on a scale of Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average and Unsatisfactory.

The Greer High addresses were in the northeast corner, toward downtown, on South Buncombe Road, Kingscreek Drive and streets off Main Street. Brushy Creek Elementary addresses were in the northwest, and Buena Vista addresses in the southwest, on streets such as Enoree View Drive, Hammett Grove Lane and Kaylyn Way. More in our schools guide.

Home values

The typical home value in ZIP 29650 was $369,431 in September 2026, up 0.65% from $367,029 in September 2025, according to the Zillow Home Value Index. The index is a modeled typical value for the middle third of homes, not a sale price, and ZIP 29650 covers most of western Greer. The citywide figure was $349,020, up 1.15% on the year. More in our home prices guide.

Parks and trails

• East Riverside Park: a Greenville County park inside the city, which the county says has the Upstate’s largest pickleball complex, with 18 courts, plus a playground, a sand volleyball court, athletic fields, a shelter to reserve and a community garden with raised beds, according to its county page. The city’s plan says it reopened in 2024 after extensive renovations.

City parks just north of the area, including Kids Planet at Century Park, are in our parks guide.

Getting around

• Interstate: I-85 Exit 56, SC 14, about 3.1 miles by road from the middle of the area. The exit number is from OpenStreetMap.
• Downtown Greer: about 3.4 miles by road to City Hall, 301 E. Poinsett St.
• Airport: about 4.7 miles by road to the terminal at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport. Both are distances measured on the OpenStreetMap road network with the OSRM routing engine, not drive times.

More in our getting around guide.

Groceries and everyday stores

From OpenStreetMap: Lowes Foods, 850 E. Suber Road, at the Riverside Crossing shopping center, and Prisma Health Pharmacy, Greer, 845 S. Buncombe Road. The nearest Publix it maps is at 411 The Parkway, about 3.4 miles by road.

How we drew this area

The name comes from Hammett Bridge Road, where the two Riverside schools sit. The edges follow Brushy Creek Road, Main Street and South Highway 14, I-85 and the city limits. School zones come from 46 residential addresses matched in Find Your School. Store locations are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Frequently asked questions

What schools serve the Hammett Bridge Road area of Greer?

Of 46 addresses we matched in Greenville County Schools’ Find Your School tool, 39 were zoned for Riverside High (rated Excellent on the 2025 state report card) and 44 for Riverside Middle (Good). Thirty-one were zoned for Woodland Elementary (Excellent), nine for Brushy Creek (Excellent) and four for Buena Vista (Excellent).

Where is the big pickleball complex in Greer?

East Riverside Park, a Greenville County park inside Greer’s city limits, has 18 pickleball courts, which the county calls the Upstate’s largest pickleball complex. It reopened in 2024 after renovations, according to the city’s plan.

Is the Hammett Bridge Road area of Greer a good place to live?

Here are the facts. It is Greer’s largest residential area by address count, mostly single-family homes and townhomes, about 3.1 miles by road from I-85 Exit 56. Most homes are zoned for Riverside High, rated Excellent for 2025, and the typical home value in ZIP 29650 was $369,431 in September 2026, according to Zillow.