Many people in Spring Valley take advantage of public transportation to get around. In fact, for the size of the village, the number of people who use the bus to commute to work is quite high. This helps to fill a need among Spring Valley citizens for affordable transportation.
The citizens of Spring Valley are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.87% of adults in Spring Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Spring Valley in 2022 was $22,087, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,348 for a family of four. However, Spring Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Spring Valley also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.20% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Spring Valley is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Spring Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spring Valley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Spring Valley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.40% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spring Valley include Haitian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, and Jamaican.
Spring Valley also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 40.69%.
The most common language spoken in Spring Valley is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and French Creole.
