Ridge Spring, South Carolina.
Typical home $157,966 (-0.0% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$367 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4 -0%
- $157,970$157,966 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,449 -2%
- $161,415$157,966 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.
- Ridge Spring$829
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ridge Spring, SC fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ridge Spring, Aiken County, South Carolina
Ridge Spring is a town of 579 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ridge Spring is a very small town in Aiken County, South Carolina, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Homes here are priced well below what is typical for the country as a whole, and household incomes across the county sit somewhat above what many rural parts of the state see.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops close behind. Across Aiken County, the largest workplaces include Aiken 01 Schools, Bridgestone Americas and Kimberly Clark. The trip to work is longer than a quick hop across town, and a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Lake Murray is a large reservoir, and Dreher Island State Recreation Area, a protected area on its waters, is a place to fish, boat or walk, both a longer drive away. Ninety Six National Historic Site is a protected area with a long history, also a longer drive away. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in most years, and summers are hot and fairly wet, so time outdoors is easy for much of the year.
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- 388households
- 29 mintypical commute
- 9%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 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, 8 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; Ridge Spring 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ridge Spring’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.
Ridge Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ridge Spring$157,966
- 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.
- Ridge Spring7
Zip codes with a Ridge Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ridge Spring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.