Beech Island is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,421 people and four associated neighborhoods, Beech Island is the 166th largest community in South Carolina.When you are in Beech Island, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 59.83% of Beech Island’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Beech Island is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beech Island who work in office and administrative support (17.70%), healthcare suport services (7.58%), and farm management occupations (4.49%). The town 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, Beech Island has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Beech Island a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Beech Island is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Beech Island, the average commute to work is 30.93 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, Beech Island doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Beech Island, just 11.36% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Beech Island in 2022 was $18,412, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,648 for a family of four. Beech Island is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Beech Island home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beech Island residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Beech Island include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Romanian. The most common language spoken in Beech Island is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
