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.Beech Island is a blue-collar town, with 59.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. 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, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.93 minutes every day commuting to work. Beech Island 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.The rate of college-level education in Beech Island is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.36% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. 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.
