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Ridge Spring, SC

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Overview


Ridge Spring is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 578 people and just one neighborhood, Ridge Spring is the 221st largest community in South Carolina.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ridge Spring is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.56% of the Ridge Spring workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ridge Spring is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridge Spring who work in business and financial occupations (13.99%), maintenance occupations (8.39%), and office and administrative support (6.99%).

Ridge Spring is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Ridge Spring, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Ridge 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. Ridge Spring has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ridge Spring than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ridge Spring may be for you.

One downside of living in Ridge Spring, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.07 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Ridge Spring doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The overall education level of Ridge Spring is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.08% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ridge Spring in 2018 was $35,468, which is wealthy relative to South Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,872 for a family of four. However, Ridge Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ridge Spring is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ridge Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridge Spring residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Ridge Spring include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Ridge Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Ridge Spring, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 25.7% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 32 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ridge Spring are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 35.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.7%), and 9.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Ridge Spring, SC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report German roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (68.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (25.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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