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 education level of Shady Spring citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.83% of adults 25 and older in Shady Spring have a college degree.
The per capita income in Shady Spring in 2022 was $31,602, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,408 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, German, Irish, French Canadian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Shady Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and German/Yiddish.
