Box Springs is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 303 people and two associated neighborhoods, Box Springs is the 448th largest community in Georgia.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 22.33% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Box Springs’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Box Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Box Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Box Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Box Springs, the average commute to work is 39.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Box Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Box Springs ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Box Springs in 2022 was $47,266, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $189,064 for a family of four. However, Box Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Box Springs also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.53% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Box Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Box Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Box Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Box Springs include Scottish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
The most common language spoken in Box Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.