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 (20.00%), law enforcement and fire fighting (20.00%), and office and administrative support (8.75%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 27.50% 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. Overall, Box Springs’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Box 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. Box Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Box Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Box Springs may be for you. As is often the case in a small town, Box Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The population of Box Springs has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 1.64% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Box Springs in 2022 was $22,814, 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 $91,256 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 55.46% 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 English, German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian. The most common language spoken in Box Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
