Monetta, South Carolina.
Typical home $126,177 (+1.3% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$280 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,620 +1%
- $124,557$126,177 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $19,635 -13%
- $145,812$126,177 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.
- Monetta$662
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Monetta, SC rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Monetta, Aiken County, South Carolina
Monetta is a town of 205 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monetta is a very small town in Aiken County, South Carolina, with a population that places it among the smallest communities in the state. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and incomes in the county run a little above the national middle. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily drive to work is a long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Aiken County, some of the largest workplaces are Aiken 01 Schools, Bridgestone Americas and Aiken Regional Medical Center. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Murray is a large reservoir, and Dreher Island State Recreation Area, a protected area, sits on its waters; both are a longer drive away. Aiken State Park, another protected area, is also a longer drive away, as is the Newberry Opera House, a theatre. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and rain falls throughout the year.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
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 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Batesburg weather station, 5 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; Monetta 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Monetta’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Monetta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monetta$126,177
- 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.
Zip codes with a Monetta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monetta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.