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SheetSC-NORTH-AUGUSTA-SC · North Augusta, SC 24,928 pop · income 71st pct · 7 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 North Augusta
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest North Augusta on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Barberton · lowest
48,943
Barberton · lowest
48,943 median HH income
32.9% of the leader · rank #1
Westover · near
90,125
Westover · near
90,125 median HH income
60.5% of the leader · rank #2
North Augusta · this city
90,132
North Augusta · this city
90,132 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #3
West Chazy · near
90,132
West Chazy · near
90,132 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #4
Shannon City · near
90,139
Shannon City · near
90,139 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #5
Santa Clara · near
90,139
Santa Clara · near
90,139 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #6
Smithtown · highest
148,852
Smithtown · highest
148,852 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for North Augusta on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 24,928.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
North Augusta - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, North Augusta lands in the 71st percentile for household income and the 88th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
71st
percentile, household income
48th
percentile, home value
46th
percentile, median rent
88th
percentile, safety
📝 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: North Augusta, SC
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 24,928 residents in North Augusta, a small city within South Carolina. Households in North Augusta report a median income of $90,132 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.8%. Typical homes in North Augusta are valued around $220,500, and the median resident age is 43.1 years. About 37.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 518 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 212% from five years earlier. North Augusta reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 443.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in South Carolina run below the national norm: the state registers 93.7 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,155 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in South Carolina run around $224, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.7 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of North Augusta'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to work and mobility to population change to within-city variation to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For North Augusta, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for North Augusta?
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within South Carolina, the closest population matches are Simpsonville (25,125 residents, $79,233 income); Socastee (24,629 residents, $59,826 income); Lexington (24,132 residents, $83,263 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Farmington, UT (24,934 residents); Smithtown, NY (24,940 residents); Auburn Hills, MI (24,911 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 does the education layer cover for North Augusta?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 9 public schools within the city match. 37.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
What can the FBI record say about safety in North Augusta?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 443.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 81% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
What can 7 Census tracts reveal inside North Augusta?
PlainCities matches 7 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in North Augusta?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 85.8%. 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
85.8%
Work from home
9.8%
Public transit
0.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 12,666 workers age 16+.
Is North Augusta growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,509 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 518 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
24,473
2025 estimate
26,982
Period change
+10.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in North Augusta?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.4×
Home value
$220,500
Household income
$90,132
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, South Carolina average
B+
City profile score · North Augusta, SC
76/100
5 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.
Violent crime A
34 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A-
2.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living B
93.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income B-
$90,132
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
North Augusta profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 88/100 (A) · 34 /100k
Poverty rate: 80/100 (A-) · 2.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 37.9%
Cost of living: 70/100 (B) · 93.7 index
Household income: 69/100 (B-) · $90,132
Where North Augusta sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
North Augusta's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - North Augusta highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
North Augusta, SC (this city): home $220,500, crime 444/100k
Farmington, UT : home $618,400, crime 1,119/100k
Auburn Hills, MI : home $233,900, crime 2,279/100k
Romulus, MI : home $149,100, crime 2,943/100k
Riverbank, CA : home $442,300, crime 1,689/100k
Barberton, OH : home $120,100, crime 2,380/100k
Simpsonville, SC : home $267,500, crime 2,822/100k
Lexington, SC : home $271,200, crime 1,684/100k
Easley, SC : home $243,100, crime 2,035/100k
Mauldin, SC : home $242,100, crime 1,600/100k
Conway, SC : home $236,300, crime 2,419/100k
How does North Augusta compare to other US cities?
Where North Augusta sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value48% pricier than other cities
Median rent46% pricier than other cities
Safety88% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to South Carolina alone, North Augusta ranks #3 of 127 South Carolina cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares North Augusta against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to South Carolina only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
South Carolina-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places North Augusta near the bottom of South Carolina's cities
Among the 441 South Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, North Augusta ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares North Augusta only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#46 of 403
89th percentile in South Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 441
0th percentile in South Carolina
Median Home Value
#113 of 404
72nd percentile in South Carolina
Poverty Rate
#378 of 439
14th percentile in South Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#67 of 441
85th percentile in South Carolina
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 South Carolina only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
71st percentile nationally for median household income · 88th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
North Augusta's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
North Augusta's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How North Augusta's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$220,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 52% 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
North Augusta's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,729 of 15,516
More affordable than 76% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#322 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.4×, North Augusta sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,729 of 15,516 and #322 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$90,132North Augusta, SC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context North Augusta, SC median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for North Augusta, SC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
24,928
Median Income
$90,132
Median Home Value
$220,500
Median Age
43.1
Poverty Rate
2.8%
Labor force participation
61.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
443.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
34.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
409.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
North Augusta's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
24,473 residents
2021
24,768 residents
2022
25,153 residents
2023
25,769 residents
2024
26,263 residents
2025
26,982 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
518
housing units authorized
Single-Family
199
detached homes
Multifamily
319
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
20.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
166
166
0
$51.2M
2020
209
209
0
$69.2M
2021
284
284
0
$88.6M
2022
369
237
132
$93.4M
2023
312
178
134
$108.6M
2024
518
199
319
$134.9M
Permit volume increased 212% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
85.8%
Carpool
3.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
9.8%
Based on 12,666 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
South Carolina statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $224
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across South Carolina at $224 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are South Carolina statewide averages, not a meter reading for North Augusta. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
South Carolina's BEA cost-of-living index is 93.7 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around North Augusta is $1,155/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to South Carolina statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a South Carolina statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county North Augusta sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How North Augusta compares to similar-size South Carolina 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, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, 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.