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.Box Springs is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Box Springs is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Box Springs who work in personal care services (19.57%), office and administrative support (13.04%), and sales jobs (10.87%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 34.78% 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, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.50 minutes every day commuting to work. Box Springs is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.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 $20,537, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,148 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 51.85% 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 Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Box Springs include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian. The most common language spoken in Box Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
