Rent, home values, family budgets, pay and taxes for the Augusta metro area, county by county.
Across the 7 counties in the metro with their own Zillow home value, the median typical home is worth $246,685. Values changed +3.1% over the past year and +24.1% over five years at the median county. A typical home costs 3.12 years of median family income at the median county.
With 10% down at 7.03%, the average 30-year rate on September 24, 2026, that home costs about $1,988 a month with tax, insurance and mortgage insurance, which takes $85,205 a year of income under the usual 28% guideline. The median family can afford its own county's typical home in none of the 7 counties, against 44.9% of counties nationally. Try it with your own income.
The most expensive counties in the metro are Columbia County, GA ($334,817), Edgefield County, SC ($281,868) and Lincoln County, GA ($264,765); the least expensive are Burke County, GA ($179,590), Richmond County, GA ($195,599) and McDuffie County, GA ($200,324).
The Economic Policy Institute prices what a modest but adequate standard of living costs in every county. In the median county of the metro, that comes to $44,504 a year for one adult and $91,995 for two adults and two children, of which $12,024 is childcare, against national averages of $47,367 and $101,771. Median family income is $63,861 in the median county.
Prices across Georgia as a whole run 3.7% below the national average and rents 11.3% below the national average, by the Bureau of Economic Analysis's state measure. Median pay across all jobs in the state is $48,170 a year. Georgia's top income tax rate on wages is 4.99%. These are statewide figures, not measured for the metro itself. The metro spans parts of South Carolina and Georgia. Compare a salary with another state or work out take-home pay.
| Aiken County, SC | $246,685 | +3.1% | $1,505 | $82,999 | $100,337 |
| Burke County, GA | $179,590 | +10.4% | — | $57,594 | $86,314 |
| Columbia County, GA | $334,817 | +1.7% | $1,797 | $110,499 | $106,488 |
| Edgefield County, SC | $281,868 | +0.9% | $1,650 | $83,677 | $91,995 |
| Lincoln County, GA | $264,765 | +6.8% | — | $63,201 | $87,783 |
| McDuffie County, GA | $200,324 | +4.5% | $1,000 | $61,579 | $90,509 |
| Richmond County, GA | $195,599 | +2.2% | $1,384 | $63,861 | $94,588 |
A dash means the source publishes no figure for that county. Metro membership follows Zillow's own county-to-metro assignment.
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