Red Boiling Springs is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,214 people and two associated neighborhoods, Red Boiling Springs is the 270th largest community in Tennessee.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Red Boiling Springs is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.85% of the Red Boiling Springs workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Red Boiling Springs is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Red Boiling Springs who work in management occupations (16.31%), sales jobs (15.59%), and farm management occupations (11.27%). Another important characteristic of Red Boiling Springs is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Red Boiling Springs has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Red Boiling Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Red Boiling Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Red Boiling Springs may be for you. One downside of living in Red Boiling Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Red Boiling Springs, the average commute to work is 32.90 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small city, Red Boiling Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The citizens of Red Boiling Springs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.21% of adults in Red Boiling Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Red Boiling Springs in 2022 was $27,385, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,540 for a family of four. However, Red Boiling Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Red Boiling Springs also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.48% of its population below the federal poverty line.Red Boiling Springs is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Red Boiling Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Red Boiling Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Red Boiling Springs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.07% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Red Boiling Springs include Irish, English, Scottish, Italian, and German. The most common language spoken in Red Boiling Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
