Jackson, South Carolina.
Typical home $128,727 (-7.6% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$257 (+62%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,649 -8%
- $139,376$128,727 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,700 -4%
- $133,427$128,727 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Jackson$676
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Jackson, SC fell 7.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jackson, Aiken County, South Carolina
Jackson is a town of 1,521 people in Aiken County. Unemployment in Aiken County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Aiken County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Jackson is a small town in Aiken County, South Carolina, where homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are mild, with a little snow in some years, and summers run hot. Rain falls through the year, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than in many places. Most people have a drive to work of a fairly ordinary length.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across Aiken County, some of the largest workplaces are Aiken 01 Schools, Bridgestone Americas and Aiken Regional Medical Center. Joblessness in the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A small number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site is a protected historic place, and the Beech Island Historical Society is a small museum devoted to local history. Boggy Gut Creek is a short drive away for time by the water. For a longer outing, Augusta Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Aiken County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Aiken County had 66,800 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Augusta Bush Field Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Aiken County
- Aiken 01 SchoolsSchool district3,235FTE
- Bridgestone AmericasTire manufacturing1,636
- Kimberly ClarkAbsorbent paper stock manufacturing1,183
- Aiken Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,032FTE
- Shaw Industries GroupPolyester fibers and filaments manufacturing1,009
- UPSFreight transportation arrangement624
- Hubbell Utility Solutions HUS Aiken551
- University of South Carolina AikenUniversity or college543
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 110 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,221 people in all across the county; Jackson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jackson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Aiken County and the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
Jackson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jackson$128,727
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jackson13
Zip codes with a Jackson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jackson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.