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Housing in Gadsden

A typical Gadsden home is worth about $99,000

Down 6.1% in a year, 68% below the South Carolina typical home.

Typical home value
$99K
▼ 6.1% in a year · SC $306K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,210
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$589
SC $1,251

What kind of housing town is Gadsden?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.9 years of income

Less than across South Carolina (4.4 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$218,000
Typical Gadsden home $99K

That covers a typical Gadsden home, with $118K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$560
Loan $490Tax $40Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,210 a month here, $650 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Gadsden’s typical property tax (0.52% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Up 0.7% in five years

Slower than South Carolina (25%).

GadsdenSouth Carolina
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K$300K$350K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryGadsdenSouth Carolina
2017$62,000$171,000
2018$64,000$180,000
2019$71,000$190,000
2020$76,000$201,000
2021$88,000$222,000
2022$96,000$260,000
2023$105,000$291,000
2024$105,000$301,000
2025$113,000$306,000
2026$106,000$305,000
August 2026$99,000$306,000
Then & now

A typical Gadsden home worth $58K in September 2016 is worth about $99K today.

+$42K
−6.1%
past year
+0.7%
past 5 years
+72.7%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

The homes

1 of Gadsden’s houses are on the National Register

Half of Gadsden’s homes were built before 1984.

History →
Owners and renters
Own 90%Rent 10%

South Carolina: 72% own.

1984
typical home built · SC 1992
$589
median property tax bill · SC $1,251
0.52%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · SC 0.48%
Historic houses in Gadsden

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,210

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$990
1 bedroom$1,100
2 bedrooms$1,210
3 bedrooms$1,550
4 bedrooms$1,850
10%
of households rent · SC 28%
34
renter households
24%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · SC 52%
27%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Columbia, SC HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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What Gadsden buyers, sellers and renters are saying.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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