Dawson Springs is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,211 people and two associated neighborhoods, Dawson Springs is the 167th largest community in Kentucky.When you are in Dawson Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.27% of Dawson Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dawson Springs is a city of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dawson Springs who work in healthcare (14.49%), sales jobs (6.24%), and food service (6.04%). 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!) Dawson 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. Dawson Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dawson Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dawson Springs may be for you. Being a small city, Dawson Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Dawson Springs has a very low overall level of education: only 6.54% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Dawson Springs in 2022 was $20,591, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $82,364 for a family of four. However, Dawson Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Dawson Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dawson Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dawson Springs include Irish, English, German, European, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Dawson Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
