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. 59.83% 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, 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%). 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, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.93 minutes every day commuting to work. 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 people in Beech Island with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.36% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or 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.
