Williston, South Carolina.
Typical home $150,780 (-5.6% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$219 (+38%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,963 -6%
- $159,743$150,780 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $39,829 -21%
- $190,609$150,780 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.
- Williston$791
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Williston, SC fell 5.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williston, Barnwell County, South Carolina
Williston is a town of 2,877 people in Barnwell County. Half its households earn more than $39,484 a year and half less, against $46,626 across Barnwell County. Unemployment in Barnwell County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then other services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williston is a small town in Barnwell County, South Carolina. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are valued modestly. Fewer adults than in many places hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and cool days and chilly nights. Summers are hot, July is the warmest month, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in other services, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Across Barnwell County, Swiss Krono USA, which makes flooring and wood products, and the Barnwell 45 Schools district are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment in the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though there are fewer jobs across the county than there were the year before. Commutes are of middling length, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Barnwell State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Aiken State Park, another protected area, and to Topper, an archaeological site. Those who like museums can also make a longer drive to the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum.
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- 1,227households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barnwell County had 4,712 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blackville West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barnwell County
- Swiss Krono USAFlooring, wood, manufacturing350
- Barnwell 45 SchoolsSchool district302FTE
- Crane Payment InnovationsVending machines manufacturing246
- Barnwell 48 SchoolsSchool district200FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters179
- Allendale Barnwell DSN Board 20 Park Street BarnwellGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability170
- UniFirstIndustrial launderer51
- Koch and CoCabinets, wood, manufacturing39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,081 people in all across the county; Williston has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williston’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 Barnwell County and the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
Williston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williston$150,780
- 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.
- Williston13
Zip codes with a Williston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.