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.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Beech Island is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 64.00% of the Beech Island workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Beech Island is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beech Island who work in healthcare suport services (10.43%), office and administrative support (6.61%), and food service (5.91%). 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!) Beech Island 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. Beech Island has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Beech Island than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Beech Island may be for you. Being a small town, Beech Island does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Beech Island with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.02% of adults in Beech Island have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Beech Island in 2022 was $23,077, which is lower middle income relative to South Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,308 for a family of four. However, Beech Island contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. 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, Welsh, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Beech Island is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
