Located in Aiken County
New homes and low taxes await in Graniteville, a South Carolina community on the other side of the Savannah River from Augusta. Graniteville was established in the 1800s as a mill town, and factories still employ many locals. The strength of these nearby employers, along with Graniteville’s location 12 miles from Downtown Augusta and 6 miles from downtown Aiken, encourages new residents to move in and homebuilders to develop new subdivisions.
Homes built before 2020 sell from the low $90,000s to the high $300,000s. Prices for newer houses range from the low $200,000s to the high $300,000s. Townhomes cost between the mid-$100,000s and the mid-$200,000s.
Aiken County’s property taxes are among the lowest in South Carolina. Graniteville is not incorporated, so residents don’t pay additional city taxes. “The biggest pull is the taxes,” says Brittany Thomas, an agent with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Beazley Realtors who has experience selling homes in Graniteville. “Taxes are a little lower [in Graniteville] than they are across the bridge in Georgia.”
Homebuilders are active in Graniteville, where they’re building various subdivisions of New Traditional-style houses. D.R. Horton has constructed single-family homes and townhouses at Byrd Village, as well as Highland Hills, a single-family community with a pool, playground and basketball court. McGuinn Homes oversees the development of townhomes at Cypress Point, and Sage Creek is full of single-family homes completed by multiple builders in the 2010s, along with new-construction townhouses. Many builders offer homebuyers incentives, such as interest rate buydowns.
Three highly rated schools serve local students: Graniteville Elementary School, Leavelle McCampbell Middle School and Midland Valley High School. These schools are part of Aiken County Public Schools, which receives recognition from the state of South Carolina for its support of military families who relocate to and live in the district. The school district’s dedicated liaison works with military families to help students transfer credits between schools, get academic help and enroll in sports and clubs.
Graniteville is 3 miles from Aiken, where many people work at Aiken Regional Medical Centers, and it’s about 15 miles from Augusta, where Fort Gordon employs nearly 30,000 military and civilian workers. Graniteville sits along Interstate 20, and Thomas says the 30-minute, traffic-free drive to and from Fort Hood takes about the same amount of time as congested commutes from Georgia towns just outside the base. “That same 30 minutes you can use to listen to your podcast, and you’re not sitting in traffic,” she says. “You’re on your way home, relaxing and decompressing from the day.”
Graniteville specializes in industrial employers, such as a Bridgestone tire plant and a textiles factory. The Best Friend Express shuttle takes riders to downtown Aiken and downtown Augusta from a Graniteville shopping center on Canal Street. Travelers catch nonstop flights to Charlotte, Washington, D.C., and other cities from Augusta Regional Airport, 20 miles away.
Along the shore of Bridge Creek Pond, the Gregg Park Civic Center hosts pickleball games, gymnastics training and yoga classes that are open to members. The center also organizes a youth baseball league and hosts cooking classes, book clubs and other events. Other notable things to do in the area include:
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Sierra Struble
Real Broker, LLC
(762) 246-5406
47 Total Sales
3 in Graniteville
$262K - $275K Price Range
Chase Dean
ERA Wilder Realty
(877) 606-2070
19 Total Sales
1 in Graniteville
$213,352 Price
Shawna Woodward
RE/MAX Reinvented
(762) 800-8557
156 Total Sales
8 in Graniteville
$166K - $400K Price Range
Mark Key
VanderMorgan Realty
(803) 866-3077
17 Total Sales
1 in Graniteville
$322,900 Price
Colleen Cather
Realty One Group Reside
(301) 281-6967
42 Total Sales
1 in Graniteville
$300,000 Price
Sonia Salazar
Re/max True Advantage
(910) 500-5631
226 Total Sales
13 in Graniteville
$210K - $336K Price Range
On average, homes in Graniteville, SC sell after 63 days on the market compared to the national average of 53 days. The median sale price for homes in Graniteville, SC over the last 12 months is $290,967, up 2% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
$1,325 - $1,775 per month
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