Valley Springs is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,779 people and three associated neighborhoods, Valley Springs is the 567th largest community in California. Valley Springs has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Valley Springs, where the median household income is $90,408.00.
Also of interest is that Valley Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.74% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Valley Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Valley Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Valley Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Valley Springs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.50% of adults in Valley Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Valley Springs in 2022 was $35,697, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,788 for a family of four. However, Valley Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Valley Springs is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Valley Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Valley Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Valley Springs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.12% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Valley Springs include English, German, European, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Valley Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.