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%). A relatively large number of people in Box Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 34.78% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. The overall crime rate in Box Springs is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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. In Box Springs, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.50 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, Box Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Box Springs has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% 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 $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.
