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. Ruffin has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Ruffin, where the median household income is .Ruffin is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 95.40% 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 service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ruffin who work in business and financial occupations (55.56%), food service (11.88%), and office and administrative support (10.34%). 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: 12.64% 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. The overall crime rate in Ruffin is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ruffin, the average commute to work is 31.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Ruffin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Ruffin has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Ruffin in 2022 was $41,002, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,008 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 Irish, English, Scots-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.
