Ridgeville is a very small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 1,629 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ridgeville is the 152nd largest community in South Carolina.When you are in Ridgeville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.31% of Ridgeville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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 food service (10.10%), maintenance occupations (8.17%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (6.25%). The overall crime rate in Ridgeville 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. 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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ridgeville, the average commute to work is 31.10 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Ridgeville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Ridgeville, just 6.64% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Ridgeville in 2022 was $11,516, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $46,064 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 Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Ridgeville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
