House Springs is a medium-sized town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 12,712 people and three associated neighborhoods, House Springs is the 66th largest community in Missouri.House Springs is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, House Springs is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in House Springs who work in office and administrative support (15.28%), sales jobs (7.70%), and management occupations (6.17%). Also of interest is that House Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.31% 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. 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!) House 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. House Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in House Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, House Springs may be for you. One downside of living in House Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In House Springs, the average commute to work is 32.74 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, House Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, House Springs is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.21% of adults 25 and older in House Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in House Springs in 2022 was $31,686, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,744 for a family of four. However, House Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. House Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call House Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of House Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in House Springs include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in House Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
