Ridgeville is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,234 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ridgeville is the 152nd largest community in South Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ridgeville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.35% of the Ridgeville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ridgeville is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgeville who work in maintenance occupations (9.34%), food service (8.24%), and healthcare suport services (6.04%). Of important note, Ridgeville is also a town of artists. Ridgeville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ridgeville’s character. Overall, Ridgeville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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!) Ridgeville 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. Ridgeville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ridgeville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ridgeville may be for you. One downside of living in Ridgeville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.17 minutes every day commuting to work. As is often the case in a small town, Ridgeville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.Ridgeville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.30% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Ridgeville in 2022 was $9,135, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $36,540 for a family of four. However, Ridgeville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ridgeville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ridgeville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridgeville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Ridgeville include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Ridgeville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
