City · Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Augusta, Wisconsin

Augusta is a city in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, part of the Eau Claire, WI metro area. It has 1,341 residents. Augusta, Wisconsin has a quality-of-life score of 74 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,089 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Wisconsin it ranks #278 of 396 cities and towns. It ranks best on mammography screening (high), primary care physicians (high) and flu vaccinations (high). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), child care cost burden (high) and days with unhealthy air (high).

74High

Quality-of-life score: #4,089 of 15,651 cities and towns
Wisconsin: #278 of 396 in WI
Population: 1,341 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 605.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 5503825

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety72#4,344/15,637
Economy31#10,831/15,631
Housing83#2,599/14,977
Health50#7,848/15,609
Healthcare89#1,664/15,650
Environment79#3,195/15,453
Education56#6,826/15,649
Infrastructure22#12,130/15,650
Community87#2,047/15,651
Leisure & amenities69#4,867/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Augusta, Wisconsin ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Eau Claire County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Mammography screening · high62.0%
99/100Wisconsin 53.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEau Claire County value
Primary care physicians · high142 /100k
98/100Wisconsin 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEau Claire County value
Flu vaccinations · high56.0%
96/100Wisconsin 50.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEau Claire County value
Rent-burdened households · low40.2%
91/100Wisconsin 43.7%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Dentists · high101 /100k
90/100Wisconsin 75 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEau Claire County value
Unemployment rate · low1.3%
90/100Wisconsin 3.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.7 /10k
5/100Wisconsin 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsEau Claire County value
Child care cost burden · high40.5%
8/100Wisconsin 30.9%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEau Claire County value
Days with unhealthy air · high3.0%
13/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEau Claire County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low13.5%
14/100Wisconsin 33.4%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Distance to an airport · high87 mi
14/100Wisconsin 37 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauEau Claire County value
Job growth · low-1.8%
15/100Wisconsin 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataEau Claire County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
1,431 (2015-2019) → 1,341 (2020-2024)
−6.3%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
56.9% (2015-2019) → 40.1% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
8.3% (2015-2019) → 19.0% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateWorsening
12.1% (2015-2019) → 18.2% (2020-2024)
+6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.2× (2015-2019) → 2.8× (2020-2024)
+26%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeImproving
32.5% (2015-2019) → 27.4% (2020-2024)
−5.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Augusta, Wisconsin improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Property tax−0.5 points1.88% → 1.39%

Declined1

Price / income+0.6×2.2× → 2.8×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Augusta, Wisconsin between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.3 min2015-2019	22.5 min2020-2024	−1.8 min	Within the margin of error	69%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.3%2015-2019	13.5%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Broadband subscriptions	81.3%2015-2019	84.4%2020-2024	+3.1 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Effective property tax rate	1.88%2015-2019	1.39%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Improved	90%
High school diploma or higher	89.7%2015-2019	85.9%2020-2024	−3.8 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+0.6×	Declined	44%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4102015-2019	0.4352020-2024	+0.024	Within the margin of error	31%
Median household income	$49,5002015-2019	$53,7142020-2024	+8.5%	Within the margin of error	15%
Poverty rate	12.1%2015-2019	18.2%2020-2024	+6 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	32.5%2015-2019	27.4%2020-2024	−5.1 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Rent-burdened households	56.9%2015-2019	40.1%2020-2024	−17 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	4.6%2015-2019	8.3%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	15%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Augusta, Wisconsin five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Augusta, Wisconsin in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Augusta, Wisconsin itself moved +2.1 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,341 residents (±174)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

520 households (±71)

Augusta, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Under $25k21%†109
$25k–50k23%†122
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

520 households (±71)

Augusta, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Own72%374
Rent28%†146

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

551 workers (±91)

Augusta, Wisconsin
Wisconsin share

Drive alone79%438
Carpool6.4%†35
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Eau Claire, WI

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Eau Claire County, the county holding most of Augusta's residents.

Eau Claire County has 2,753 employer establishments, 255 for every 10,000 residents (1.03× the US rate of 248; 1.04× Wisconsin's), with 51,990 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,677. The Census Bureau also counts 7,411 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,753; 7,411 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 255; US 248 · Wisconsin 244
Paid employees: 51,990
Average annual pay: $53,677; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Eau Claire County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	217	20.1	0.96×About typical	4,828	$92,417	323
Restaurants and other eating places	193	17.9	0.97×About typical	4,043	$19,192	29
Specialty trade contractors	144	13.3	0.86×About typical	1,270	$68,969	496
Lessors of real estate	108	10	0.81×About typical	747	$43,622	880
Full-service restaurants	85	7.9	1.03×About typical	1,963	$20,901	13
Limited-service restaurants	82	7.6	0.95×About typical	1,656	$17,739	8
Religious organizations	82	7.6	1.37×More than typical	608	$21,660	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	79	7.3	1.09×About typical	784	$32,633	322
Offices of other health practitioners	76	7	1.16×About typical	680	$35,731	198
Automotive repair and maintenance	65	6	1.20×About typical	382	$46,461	62
Individual and family services	65	6	2.15×More than typical	835	$32,649	76
Insurance agencies and brokerages	64	5.9	1.35×More than typical	576	$78,573	149

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County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 107,975 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Augusta, Wisconsin: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

115.8FY2017
204.2FY2018

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Augusta, Wisconsin, so they do not add up across cities.

Augusta, Wisconsin's figures are part of those of Eau Claire County, WI ($1.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Augusta is mostly in Eau Claire County.

See federal money in Eau Claire County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Augusta, Wisconsin is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Derrick Van OrdenR-WI-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 8.3%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Eau Claire County97100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Eau Claire, WI94

Other cities and towns in Eau Claire County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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