Wagener, South Carolina.
Typical home $66,767 (-13.7% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $173 (-33%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $10,644 -14%
- $77,411$66,767 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.
- Wagener$350
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Wagener, SC fell 13.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wagener, Aiken County, South Carolina
Wagener is a town of 631 people in Aiken County. Half its households earn more than $48,621 a year and half less, against $70,609 across Aiken County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wagener is a very small town in Aiken County, South Carolina, where households earn well below what is typical across the county. Homes here are inexpensive, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Some people work from home. Across Aiken County, some of the largest workplaces are Aiken 01 Schools, Bridgestone Americas and Aiken Regional Medical Center, and the county has gained jobs over the past year, with unemployment lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Most outings from Wagener mean a longer drive. Aiken State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, Lake Murray is a large reservoir popular for boating and fishing, and Riverbanks Zoo is a well-known zoo in the Columbia area.
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- 14%below the poverty line
- 8%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 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, a mile 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; Wagener 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Wagener’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.
Wagener home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wagener$66,767
- 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 Wagener address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wagener — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.