Dawson Springs is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,254 people and two associated neighborhoods, Dawson Springs is the 167th largest community in Kentucky.When you are in Dawson Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.17% of Dawson Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dawson Springs is a city of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dawson Springs who work in healthcare (13.91%), sales jobs (11.29%), and office and administrative support (6.25%). The city 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, Dawson Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dawson Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. As is often the case in a small city, Dawson Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The population of Dawson Springs has a very low overall level of education: only 6.26% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Dawson Springs in 2022 was $20,741, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,964 for a family of four. However, Dawson Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dawson Springs also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.46% of its population below the federal poverty line.Dawson Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dawson Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dawson Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dawson Springs include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Dutch. The most common language spoken in Dawson Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
