New Ellenton, South Carolina.
Typical home $155,552 (+5.2% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$316 (+63%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,627 +5%
- $147,925$155,552 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $467 -0%
- $156,019$155,552 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.
- New Ellenton$816
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in New Ellenton, SC rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Ellenton, Aiken County, South Carolina
New Ellenton is a town of 2,210 people in Aiken County. Half its households earn more than $58,476 a year and half less, against $70,609 across Aiken County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. 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 residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Ellenton is a small town in Aiken County, South Carolina. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes sit below the county's, with more residents living below the poverty line than a typical household might expect to find around them. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers run hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Aiken County, some of the largest workplaces are Aiken 01 Schools, Bridgestone Americas and Kimberly Clark. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum a short drive away, a reminder of the area's horse-racing history. A longer drive brings you to Aiken State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and to the Augusta Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden in the Augusta area.
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- 1,035households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents 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 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aiken 5SE 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; New Ellenton has two 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Ellenton’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.
New Ellenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Ellenton$155,552
- 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.
- New Ellenton18
Zip codes with a New Ellenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Ellenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.