Augusta-Richmond County, GA (Georgia) Houses and Residents

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Total population: 194,149 (Urban population: 182,537, Rural population: 11,612 (202 farm, 11,410 nonfarm))

Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 80,646 (72,384 occupied: 41,622 owner occupied, 30,762 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	42%
State:	33%

Housing density: 267 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this state: $220,098.

Median contract rent in 2007: $524 (lower quartile is $422, upper quartile is $632)

Housing units in Augusta-Richmond County with a mortgage: 25,775 (3,304 second mortgage, 2,322 home equity loan, 88 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 10,147

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $97,800 (it was $73,700 in 2000)

Augusta-Richmond County:	$97,800
Georgia:	$164,500

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $68,400 - $148,000

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $143,285
Here: $143,285
State: $234,442

Townhouses or other attached units: $105,159
Here: $105,159
State: $202,354

In 2-unit structures: $58,831
Here: $58,831
State: $222,245

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $72,201
Here: $72,201
State: $151,985

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $79,955
Here: $79,955
State: $219,544

Mobile homes: $38,300
Here: $38,300
State: $44,353

Median year house/condo built: 1974

Median year apartment built: 1976

Household type by relationship

Households: 184,545

In family households: 156,563 (30,373 male householders, 18,312 female householders)
30,558 spouses, 59,268 children (53,831 natural, 1,834 adopted, 3,603 stepchildren), 6,938 grandchildren, 1,682 brothers or sisters, 1,368 parents, 3,680 other relatives, 4,384 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 27,982 (9,955 male householders (8,073 living alone)), 13,720 female householders (12,087 living alone)), 4,307 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 10,874 (3,203 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 18,676 2-persons, 12,761 3-persons, 9,575 4-persons, 4,889 5-persons, 1,797 6-persons, 987 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 20,160 1-person, 3,029 2-persons, 316 3-persons, 92 4-persons, 52 5-persons, 26 6-persons.

24,522 married couples with children.
19,590 single-parent households (2,559 men, 17,031 women).

93.3% of residents of Augusta-Richmond County speak English at home.
3.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (76% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).

Foreign born population: 6,729 (3.4%)
(59.0% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	6.1
State:	6.2

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	4.2
State:	4.2

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia:
	1 room: 18 2 rooms: 304 3 rooms: 1,620 4 rooms: 3,167 5 rooms: 9,080 6 rooms: 11,936 7 rooms: 7,375 8 rooms: 4,557 9 or more rooms: 3,565

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia:
	1 room: 899 2 rooms: 3,076 3 rooms: 5,634 4 rooms: 8,242 5 rooms: 6,891 6 rooms: 3,856 7 rooms: 1,371 8 rooms: 553 9 or more rooms: 240

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 1,182
1995 to 1998: 4,739
1990 to 1994: 6,188
1980 to 1989: 15,213
1970 to 1979: 16,813
1960 to 1969: 13,602
1950 to 1959: 11,488
1940 to 1949: 5,275
1939 or earlier: 6,146

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Augusta-Richmond County:
	no bedroom: 118 1 bedroom: 1,069 2 bedrooms: 7,798 3 bedrooms: 24,098 4 bedrooms: 7,443 5 or more bedrooms: 1,096

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Augusta-Richmond County:
	no bedroom: 1,100 1 bedroom: 7,678 2 bedrooms: 12,924 3 bedrooms: 7,522 4 bedrooms: 1,417 5 or more bedrooms: 121

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Augusta-Richmond County in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 2,294 1 vehicle: 13,417 2 vehicles: 16,990 3 vehicles: 6,677 4 vehicles: 1,694 5 or more vehicles: 550

Cars and other vehicles available in Augusta-Richmond County in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 6,608 1 vehicle: 15,291 2 vehicles: 7,368 3 vehicles: 1,177 4 vehicles: 244 5 or more vehicles: 74

Augusta-Richmond County, GA house values

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Augusta-Richmond County, GA:

Less than $10,000: 382
$10,000 to $14,999: 302
$15,000 to $19,999: 511
$20,000 to $24,999: 447
$25,000 to $29,999: 552
$30,000 to $34,999: 630
$35,000 to $39,999: 692
$40,000 to $49,999: 1643
$50,000 to $59,999: 2231
$60,000 to $69,999: 2791
$70,000 to $79,999: 3312
$80,000 to $89,999: 4104
$90,000 to $99,999: 3695
$100,000 to $124,999: 8346
$125,000 to $149,999: 3843
$150,000 to $174,999: 2351
$175,000 to $199,999: 1611
$200,000 to $249,999: 1453
$250,000 to $299,999: 568
$300,000 to $399,999: 725
$400,000 to $499,999: 329
$500,000 to $749,999: 347
$750,000 to $999,999: 124
$1,000,000 or more: 73

Augusta-Richmond County rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Augusta-Richmond County:

Less than $100: 1,453 people
$100 to $149: 899
$150 to $199: 1,092
$200 to $249: 1,063
$250 to $299: 1,194
$300 to $349: 1,364
$350 to $399: 1,483
$400 to $449: 1,699
$450 to $499: 2,882
$500 to $549: 3,096
$550 to $599: 2,785
$600 to $649: 2,511
$650 to $699: 2,426
$700 to $749: 1,642
$750 to $799: 1,231
$800 to $899: 1,355
$900 to $999: 472
$1,000 to $1,249: 491
$1,250 to $1,499: 66
$1,500 to $1,999: 26
$2,000 or more: 15
No cash rent: 1,782

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 1,236 1990 to 1994: 788 1985 to 1989: 791 1980 to 1984: 743 1975 to 1979: 791 1970 to 1974: 629 1970 to 1974: 457 1965 to 1969: 1,294

Augusta-Richmond County, GA Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 80.0%
Number of people working at home: 1,168 (1.4% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 2249
5 to 9 minutes: 8334
10 to 14 minutes: 14271
15 to 19 minutes: 18533
20 to 24 minutes: 15343
25 to 29 minutes: 4652
30 to 34 minutes: 9221
35 to 39 minutes: 1121
40 to 44 minutes: 1351
45 to 59 minutes: 3354
60 to 89 minutes: 1738
90 or more minutes: 1705

Augusta-Richmond County mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 63,468 (76%)
Carpooled: 12,065 (15%)
Bus or trolley bus: 817 (1%)
Streetcar or trolley car: 29 (0%)
Subway or elevated: 20 (0%)
Ferryboat: 8 (0%)
Taxi: 242 (0%)
Motorcycle: 43 (0%)
Bicycle: 185 (0%)
Walked: 4,196 (5%)
Other means: 799 (1%)
Worked at home: 1,168 (1%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 10152
$10,000 to $14,999: 5812
$15,000 to $19,999: 5958
$20,000 to $24,999: 5419
$25,000 to $29,999: 5561
$30,000 to $34,999: 5077
$35,000 to $39,999: 4901
$40,000 to $44,999: 4256
$45,000 to $49,999: 3838
$50,000 to $59,999: 5755
$60,000 to $74,999: 5922
$75,000 to $99,999: 5040
$100,000 to $124,999: 1987
$125,000 to $149,999: 871
$150,000 to $199,999: 709
$200,000 or more: 1102

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 89007

United States or American: 17803

English: 8678

German: 7900

Irish: 7432

Subsaharan African:: 2277

Italian: 2143

African: 2010

Scottish: 2005

Scotch-Irish: 1824

French (except Basque): 1483

European: 899

Polish: 851

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 639

French Canadian: 540

Norwegian: 517

Swedish: 491

Dutch: 461

British: 441

Welsh: 342

Jamaican: 278

Greek: 243

Russian: 233

Hungarian: 225

Arab:: 191

Portuguese: 182

Ukrainian: 156

Canadian: 150

Danish: 128

Nigerian: 127

Haitian: 116

Austrian: 106

Czechoslovakian: 102

Finnish: 85

Iranian: 85

West Indian: 76

Lebanese: 73

Northern European: 68

Cape Verdean: 66

Guyanese: 64

Czech: 62

Scandinavian: 60

Swiss: 59

Lithuanian: 58

Syrian: 56

Pennsylvania German: 52

Yugoslavian: 48

U.S. Virgin Islander: 45

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 42

Egyptian: 41

Croatian: 41

Ethiopian: 39

Belgian: 33

Barbadian: 33

Australian: 30

Acadian/Cajun: 29

Eastern European: 27

Brazilian: 27

Slovak: 27

Serbian: 20

Other Subsaharan African: 20

Bermudan: 17

German Russian: 15

Arab/Arabic: 13

Romanian: 12

Turkish: 12

Celtic: 12

Bahamian: 11

Dutch West Indian: 9

Estonian: 8

Kenyan: 8

Armenian: 8

Palestinian: 8

Macedonian: 8

Ghanian: 7

Slovene: 7

Israeli: 6

Belizean: 6

British West Indian: 6

Icelander: 4

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

Germany (19%)
Korea (12%)
India (6%)
United Kingdom (5%)
Mexico (5%)
Panama (4%)
Canada (4%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 117307
Northeast: 11440
Midwest: 9848
South: 38992
West: 5610

52% of Augusta-Richmond County residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 36% lived in Georgia.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 815
Nursery to 4th grade: 419
5th and 6th grade: 727
7th and 8th grade: 2,111
9th grade: 1,578
10th grade: 1,930
11th grade: 1,899
12th grade, no diploma: 2,231
High school graduate (or equivalency): 16,581
Less than 1 year of college: 3,920
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 8,675
Associate degree: 3,595
Bachelor's degree: 6,834
Master's degree: 2,014
Professional school degree: 1,386
Doctorate degree: 584

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 963
Nursery to 4th grade: 376
5th and 6th grade: 851
7th and 8th grade: 2,563
9th grade: 1,906
10th grade: 2,638
11th grade: 2,496
12th grade, no diploma: 2,725
High school graduate (or equivalency): 18,649
Less than 1 year of college: 4,986
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 10,293
Associate degree: 4,211
Bachelor's degree: 7,796
Master's degree: 2,676
Professional school degree: 1,001
Doctorate degree: 355

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 5.4%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 6.6%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 13.6%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 11.0%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 18.7%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 8.5%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 10.7%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 11.0%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 10.2%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 5.1%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 6.1%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 8.5%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 15.6%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $42,325
Black householders: $32,277
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $33,700
Asian householders: $32,199
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $24,206
Some other race householders: $29,644
Two or more races householders: $31,824
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $26,165

Augusta-Richmond County household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Augusta-Richmond County household income for Black householders

Augusta-Richmond County household income for Two or more races householders

Augusta-Richmond County household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Augusta-Richmond County marital status for males

Augusta-Richmond County marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $110,008
Black or African American householders: $91,297
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $93,288
Asian householders: $104,302
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $101,515
Some other race householders: $113,989
Two or more races householders: $105,098
Hispanic or Latino householders: $107,885

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 49,543
One, attached: 3,086
Two: 2,742
3 or 4: 5,235
5 to 9: 7,428
10 to 19: 2,208
20 to 49: 795
50 or more: 2,622
Mobile homes: 6,987

Median worth of mobile homes: $44,296

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 1%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Augusta-Richmond County:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (69%) Electricity (26%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%) Wood (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Electricity (50%) Utility gas (46%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%) No fuel used (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,981

Here:	8.0%
Georgia:	8.4%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1,062

Here:	8.5%
Georgia:	8.5%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,718

Here:	18.8%
Georgia:	22.9%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninst.)

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