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Virginia / Augusta County

How's Augusta County?

One question about Augusta County, Virginia, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Augusta County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 1992 to 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$1,179+3.0%+26.3%+47.4%Highest quartile712 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 41 of 133 in Virginia
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives31.2K jobs+4.6%+13.9%+18.9%Highest quartile708 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 28 of 133 in Virginia

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air1992 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days83.4% of days+8.2 pts+21.2 pts–2nd quartile255 of 614 counties in 1992 · 4 of 23 in Virginia
Median daily AQI1992 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate33 AQI−8.0 AQI−11.0 AQI–3rd quartile418 of 614 counties in 1992 · 22 of 23 in Virginia

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Augusta County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Augusta County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.