Ruffin is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 322 people and three associated neighborhoods, Ruffin is the 528th largest community in North Carolina. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Ruffin, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Ruffin, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Ruffin’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Ruffin does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is .Ruffin is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 97.96% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ruffin is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ruffin who work in business and financial occupations (62.45%), office and administrative support (12.24%), and management occupations (10.61%). Also of interest is that Ruffin has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.39% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. Overall, Ruffin’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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, Ruffin has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ruffin a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Ruffin, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.68 minutes every day commuting to work. Ruffin is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.Ruffin ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.47% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Ruffin in 2022 was $48,438, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $193,752 for a family of four. However, Ruffin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ruffin is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ruffin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ruffin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ruffin include English, Scots-Irish, Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian. The most common language spoken in Ruffin is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
