Home prices in Rock Hill run 34% below the national median: $278,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $52,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 5.3x.
Factor in $127/month for property tax in Rock Hill, based on the area's 0.55% effective rate applied to the median home price. That's $1,529 annually.
South Carolina levies a state income tax on top of the $1,670/month this mortgage runs. Model your real after-tax take-home before deciding how much payment you can carry.
Rock Hill's cost of living index is 113, above the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
Rock Hill's median home price runs 9% higher than nearby Columbia: $255,000 there versus $278,000 here.