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SheetGA-AUGUSTA-RICHMOND-COUNTY-GA · Augusta-Richmond County, GA 201,504 pop · income 24th pct · 56 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Augusta-Richmond County
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Augusta-Richmond County on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Birmingham · lowest
44,376
Birmingham · lowest
44,376 median HH income
36.9% of the leader · rank #1
Ninilchik · near
53,125
Ninilchik · near
53,125 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #2
Subiaco · near
53,125
Subiaco · near
53,125 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #3
Eckley · near
53,125
Eckley · near
53,125 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #4
Campbellton · near
53,125
Campbellton · near
53,125 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #5
Augusta-Richm… · this city
53,134
Augusta-Richm… · this city
53,134 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #6
McKinney · highest
120,273
McKinney · highest
120,273 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Augusta-Richmond County on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 201,504.
Nationally, Augusta-Richmond County sits in the 24th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
24th
percentile, household income
31st
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Augusta-Richmond County, GA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 201,504 residents in Augusta-Richmond County, a mid-sized U.S. city within Georgia. The typical household in Augusta-Richmond County brings in $53,134 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 17.6%. Augusta-Richmond County's housing stock carries a median value of $162,900, and the median resident age is 34.9 years. 24.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 53.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Georgia run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Georgia at 96.3 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,203 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Georgia, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 39.5 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Augusta-Richmond County's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Augusta-Richmond County, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Augusta-Richmond County?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 17.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Augusta-Richmond County?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Which cities make useful reference points for Augusta-Richmond County?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Georgia, the closest population matches are Columbus (204,383 residents, $56,622 income); Macon-Bibb County (156,543 residents, $50,747 income); Savannah (147,546 residents, $56,782 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Oxnard, CA (201,014 residents); Amarillo, TX (200,945 residents); McKinney, TX (202,314 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What can 56 Census tracts reveal inside Augusta-Richmond County?
PlainCities matches 56 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Augusta-Richmond County growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -54 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.0% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
202,053
2025 estimate
201,999
Period change
-0.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Georgia average
F
City profile score · Augusta-Richmond County, GA
35/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living C
96.3 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$53,134
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
17.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Augusta-Richmond County profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.2%
Household income: 24/100 (F) · $53,134
Poverty rate: 18/100 (F) · 17.6%
How does Augusta-Richmond County compare to other US cities?
Where Augusta-Richmond County sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income24% higher than other cities
Home value31% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Augusta-Richmond County against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Georgia only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Georgia-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Augusta-Richmond County near the bottom of Georgia's cities
Among the 638 Georgia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Augusta-Richmond County ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Augusta-Richmond County only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#320 of 610
48th percentile in Georgia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 638
0th percentile in Georgia
Median Home Value
#301 of 577
48th percentile in Georgia
Poverty Rate
#218 of 637
65th percentile in Georgia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#210 of 638
67th percentile in Georgia
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Georgia only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
24th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Augusta-Richmond County's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$162,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 69% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,032 of 15,516
More affordable than 55% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#14 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 3.1×, Augusta-Richmond County sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,032 of 15,516 and #14 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$53,134Augusta-Richmond County, GA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Augusta-Richmond County, GA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Augusta-Richmond County, GA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)17.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
201,504
Median Income
$53,134
Median Home Value
$162,900
Median Age
34.9
Poverty Rate
17.6%
Labor force participation
53.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.2%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Augusta-Richmond County's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
202,053 residents
2021
201,040 residents
2022
202,291 residents
2023
201,408 residents
2024
201,979 residents
2025
201,999 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.7%
Carpool
7.5%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
2.4%
Work from Home
8.3%
Other
4.5%
Based on 89,859 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Georgia statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Georgia at $225 (electricity about $125 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Georgia statewide averages, not a meter reading for Augusta-Richmond County. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Georgia's BEA cost-of-living index is 96.3 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Augusta-Richmond County is $1,203/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Georgia statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 39.5 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Georgia statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Augusta-Richmond County sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Augusta-Richmond County compares to similar-size Georgia cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.