North Augusta, South Carolina.
Typical home $282,277 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,576 (+2.0%). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$782 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,317 +3%
- $273,960$282,277 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,991 +23%
- $229,285$282,277 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.
- North Augusta$1,482
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in North Augusta, SC rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in North Augusta, SC rose 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in North Augusta runs $309/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $453 in Oct 2022.
That is $1,885 a month against $1,576 rent: a $1,482 mortgage payment, plus $102 property tax and $302 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — North Augusta
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,885
- Renting$1,576
- Mortgage only$1,482
Property tax · $102/mo 0.43% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Edgefield County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $302/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in North Augusta, Edgefield County, South Carolina
North Augusta is a city of 24,379 people in Edgefield County. Half its households earn more than $86,092 a year and half less, against $73,029 across Edgefield County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in North Augusta was 3.4% in August 2026, and Edgefield County had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. North Augusta is a small city in Edgefield County, South Carolina, with a population that skews older than the typical American community. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though rents are not low. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with steady rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others work in manufacturing, professional and business services, or transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walmart, the City of North Augusta and NHC Healthcare North Augusta. Unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are fairly short, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Morris Museum of Art, a museum, and Augusta Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden. Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Strom Thurmond is a large reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 11,168households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edgefield County had 6,119 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 74°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Augusta Daniel Field Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in North Augusta
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters354
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters293
- City of North AugustaAdvisory commissions, executive government280
- NHC Healthcare North AugustaNursing homes205
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter172
- Kroger Atlanta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores168
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores164
- AmbioPharmPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing155
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,095 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Augusta’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 Edgefield County and the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
North Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Augusta$282,277
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 North Augusta listings, and the typical home goes pending in 35 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- North Augusta31.20%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- North Augusta35
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- North Augusta256
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- North Augusta70
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- North Augusta$273,851
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- North Augusta97.65%
Zip codes with a North Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in North Augusta
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29841 | North Augusta | 32,342 | $1,478 | $234,347 |
| 29860 | North Augusta | 18,201 | $1,904 | $335,774 |