Cusseta is a somewhat small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 8,819 people and five associated neighborhoods, Cusseta is the 105th largest community in Georgia.
The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Cusseta, employing 40.16% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Retail and Accommodation industries employ 17.00% and 12.52% of the civilian workforce, respectively.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Cusseta spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 12.34 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
For a small town, Cusseta has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Cusseta exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The education level of Cusseta citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.01% of adults in Cusseta have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cusseta in 2022 was $23,574, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,296 for a family of four. However, Cusseta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cusseta is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cusseta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cusseta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Cusseta also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.59% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cusseta include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Cusseta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.