Metro area · Georgia

Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro area

Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC is a metropolitan area of 7 counties in Georgia, South Carolina, home to 641,231 residents. Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro area has a quality-of-life score of 29 out of 100 (low), ranking #655 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Georgia it ranks #10 of 37. It ranks best on dentists (high), job growth (high) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on property crime rate (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and median Air Quality Index (high).

29Low
Quality-of-life score
#655 of 925 metro and micro areas
Georgia
#10 of 37 in GA
Population
641,231 (2025)
Land area
3,481 mi²
Density
184.2 /mi²
CBSA code
12260

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety14#799/924
  • Economy49#470/925
  • Housing48#479/925
  • Health44#516/925
  • Healthcare53#435/923
  • Environment21#726/917
  • Education56#408/925
  • Infrastructure34#607/925
  • Community24#705/925
  • Leisure & amenities26#684/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Richmond CountyCentral county18206,559
  2. Aiken CountyCentral county50181,515
  3. Columbia CountyCentral county76169,189
  4. Edgefield CountyOutlying county2629,808
  5. Burke CountyOutlying county1024,408
  6. McDuffie CountyOutlying county921,640
  7. Lincoln CountyOutlying county218,112

States

The share of the area's residents living in each state.

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Augusta-Richmond CountyPrincipal city201,528

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Augusta-Richmond County201,528
  2. Evans36,998
  3. Martinez33,750
  4. Aiken32,521
  5. North Augusta25,653
  6. Grovetown17,014
  7. Thomson6,821
  8. Waynesboro5,644
  9. Belvedere5,180
  10. Edgefield4,010
  11. Harlem3,885
  12. Hephzibah3,747
  13. Clearwater3,319
  14. Burnettown3,135
  15. New Ellenton2,837
  16. Gloverville2,505
  17. Johnston2,132
  18. Graniteville2,056
  19. Jackson1,870
  20. Lincolnton1,768
  21. Beech Island1,578
  22. Langley1,310
  23. Wagener1,193
  24. Murphys Estates1,064

Other metro and micro areas in Georgia

Areas based in Georgia, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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