Box Springs’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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.
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.
In terms of college education, Box Springs ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 1.64% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
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.
