Cusseta is a somewhat small town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 8,661 people and five associated neighborhoods, Cusseta is the 105th largest community in Georgia.Cusseta is a military town: the armed forces employs 40.16% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Retail and Accommodation are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 17.00% and 12.52% of the civilian workforce respectively. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 12.34 minutes getting to work every day. 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.In terms of college education, Cusseta is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.01% of adults in Cusseta have a college 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.
