About Spring Grove

Spring Grove is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 4,283 people and just one neighborhood, Spring Grove is the 173rd largest community in Virginia.

Spring Grove is a blue-collar town, with 35.8% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Spring Grove is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Spring Grove who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.42%), building maintenance and grounds keeping (6.96%), and management occupations (6.00%).

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Spring Grove are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. This is certainly the case with Spring Grove, which has a vibrant tourist economy.

One downside of living in Spring Grove, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.38 minutes every day commuting to work.

Spring Grove is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Spring Grove isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Spring Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Spring Grove Information and Demographics

The population of Spring Grove has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 6.48% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Spring Grove in 2000 was $17,233, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $68,932 for a family of four.

Spring Grove is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Spring Grove home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Spring Grove is African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Spring Grove include English, African, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Spring Grove is English. Some people also speak Spanish.