Dripping Springs is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 9,583 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Dripping Springs is the 225th largest community in Texas.

Dripping Springs is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dripping Springs is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dripping Springs who work in management occupations (14.73%), office and administrative support jobs (14.48%), and sales jobs (11.20%).

Also of interest is that Dripping Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Dripping 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, Dripping Springs really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Dripping Springs perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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 Dripping Springs, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.99 minutes every day commuting to work.

Dripping Springs is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Dripping Springs, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.32% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Dripping 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.

Dripping Springs Information and Demographics

The citizens of Dripping Springs are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.81% of adults in Dripping Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dripping Springs in 2000 was $27,179, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,716 for a family of four. However, Dripping Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dripping Springs home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Dripping Springs is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dripping Springs include German, English, Irish, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Dripping Springs is English. Some people also speak Spanish.