Powder Springs is a medium-sized city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 18,950 people and 16 associated neighborhoods, Powder Springs is the 66th largest community in Georgia.
Also of interest is that Powder Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, Powder Springs is also a city of artists. Powder Springs has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Powder Springs’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.90% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Because of many things, Powder Springs is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Powder Springs really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Powder Springs perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Powder Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Powder Springs, the average commute to work is 35.60 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Powder Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Powder Springs is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 39.84% of adults in Powder Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Powder Springs in 2022 was $38,254, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,016 for a family of four. However, Powder Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Powder Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Powder Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Powder Springs residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Powder Springs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.58% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Powder Springs include English, German, Irish, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Powder Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.