The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Spring Valley has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Spring Valley a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Spring Valley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Spring Valley is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.52% of adults 25 and older in Spring Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Spring Valley in 2022 was $32,544, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,176 for a family of four. However, Spring Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Spring Valley is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Spring Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spring Valley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Spring Valley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.51% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spring Valley include Italian, German, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Spring Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
