Living in Augusta & the CSRA

Augusta anchors Georgia's Central Savannah River Area (CSRA), a region currently represented in this dataset by its central city alone. Augusta's identity runs through two genuine anchors with little in common on the surface: the Masters Tournament, a globally famous but genuinely narrow one-week-a-year economic event (a cited $36 million in direct tournament-week revenue, almost $110 million in total metro impact), and Fort Gordon, a real, large-scale military-cybersecurity employment cluster -- the region's largest employer by a wide margin, with 31,874 military, civilian, and contractor personnel and a $7.5 billion annual economic impact. Army Cyber Command's consolidated East Coast headquarters and a major on-post NSA facility give Augusta a genuine, growing cybersecurity-industry identity distinct from a typical Southern military-town profile. Housing here runs genuinely affordable, with a median sale price around $220,000, roughly half of Atlanta's figure elsewhere in this dataset, supported by Fort Gordon's steady, year-round employment base rather than the Masters' narrow seasonal spike. Population has been essentially flat in recent years, a real, disclosed contrast to the fast-growing exurban Atlanta markets elsewhere in this dataset.

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