A lot of people in Spring Valley take the bus for their daily commute. For the size of the village, the number of people who use public transportation is quite high. For many people in Spring Valley, this fills their need for low-cost transportation.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Spring Valley rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.87% of adults 25 and older in Spring Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Spring Valley in 2022 was $22,087, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,348 for a family of four. However, Spring Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Spring Valley also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.20% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Spring Valley is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. 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 31.40% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spring Valley include Haitian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, and Jamaican.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Spring Valley's cultural character, accounting for 40.69% of the village’s population.
The most common language spoken in Spring Valley is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and French Creole.
