Salley, South Carolina.
Typical home $70,324 (+7.6% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $28 (-7%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $4,967 +8%
- $65,356$70,324 since Sep 2025
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.
- Salley$369
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Salley, SC rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salley, Aiken County, South Carolina
Salley is a town of 329 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salley is a very small town in Aiken County, South Carolina, with a population among the smallest of any place in the county. Homes here are inexpensive, with a typical value well below what buyers would find in much of the country. Winters are mild and cool, with January the coldest month, and summers run hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Across Aiken County, some of the largest workplaces are Aiken 01 Schools, Bridgestone Americas and Aiken Regional Medical Center. Commutes here are long, since many jobs are a good drive from town, and county unemployment has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. The outdoors are the main draw nearby. Aiken State Park and Barnwell State Park are protected areas, and Lake Brown is a lake, each a longer drive away. For a different kind of outing, the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 34 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 57° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wagener 1SW weather station, 6 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; Salley 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Salley’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.
Salley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salley$70,324
- 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 Salley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.