Spring Lake is a medium-sized town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 11,530 people and nine associated neighborhoods, Spring Lake is the 84th largest community in North Carolina.

The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Spring Lake, employing 31.22% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Healthcare and Accommodation industries employ 21.29% and 11.85% of the civilian workforce, respectively.

Also of interest is that Spring Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Spring Lake 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 overall education level of Spring Lake is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.20% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Spring Lake in 2022 was $25,899, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,596 for a family of four. However, Spring Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Spring Lake is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Spring Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spring Lake residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Spring Lake also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.79% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spring Lake include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Jamaican.

The most common language spoken in Spring Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.