Most of Box Springs commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
A typical one-way commute lasts 44 minutes (Georgia 28, U.S. 26). Box Springs has 47 jobs, against 119 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 22% of workers (Georgia 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Box Springs quiets down on a workday
On a workday 117 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 45 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Box Springs on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
33% of working residents work in Columbus
Where Box Springs clocks in
33% of workers
5% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Jobs in Box Springs: what the 47 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Box Springs, 2014 → 2024: 8 → 47. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Box Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 44 minutes to work from Box Springs
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Box Springs workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 80 commuters (the 22% who work from home are left out). Across Georgia: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Box Springs
About 40% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
33% of Box Springs works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Box Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box Springs | – | — | — | 44 min | — |
| Cusseta | under 2% | C− | B+ | 11 min | $61,042 |
| Columbus | 33% | C | B | 21 min | $58,073 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Columbus. Darker towns draw more of Box Springs’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Box Springs: questions
What is the poverty rate in Box Springs?
35.5%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Box Springs?
44 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Box Springs work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (33%, 13 mi), Atlanta (5%, 85 mi), West Point (4%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Box Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Box Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Box Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.