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. 46.92% 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 (14.76%), office and administrative support (12.83%), and management occupations (8.61%). 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. 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 31.60 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Beech Island does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Beech Island are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.36% of adults in Beech Island have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Beech Island in 2022 was $21,390, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,560 for a family of four. However, Beech Island contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Beech Island also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.29% of its population below the federal poverty line.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, Scottish, German, French, and English. The most common language spoken in Beech Island is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
