Shady Spring is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,169 people and two associated neighborhoods, Shady Spring is the 66th largest community in West Virginia. Shady Spring real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Shady Spring house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Shady Spring is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shady Spring is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shady Spring who work in management occupations (18.73%), healthcare (18.46%), and office and administrative support (8.57%). A relatively large number of people in Shady Spring telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.95% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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!) Shady Spring 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. Shady Spring has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Shady Spring than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Shady Spring may be for you. Being a small town, Shady Spring does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Shady Spring are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.77% of adults in Shady Spring having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Shady Spring in 2022 was $39,082, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $156,328 for a family of four. However, Shady Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Shady Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shady Spring residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shady Spring include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Shady Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Spanish.
