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.
In terms of college education, Spring Valley is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.47% of adults 25 and older in Spring Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Spring Valley in 2022 was $21,398, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,592 for a family of four. However, Spring Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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 29.31% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Spring Valley include Haitian, Hungarian, Polish, Jamaican, and European.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Spring Valley's cultural character, accounting for 36.10% of the village’s population.
The most common language spoken in Spring Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
