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.
When you are in Ridge Spring, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.97% of Ridge Spring’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ridge Spring is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridge Spring who work in business and financial occupations (16.36%), management occupations (9.39%), and maintenance occupations (7.27%).
There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Ridge Spring, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.
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, Ridge Spring has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ridge Spring a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Ridge Spring is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ridge Spring, the average commute to work is 35.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Ridge Spring 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.
In terms of college education, Ridge Spring is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.21% of adults in Ridge Spring have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ridge Spring in 2022 was $36,338, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $145,352 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 Syrian.
The most common language spoken in Ridge Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 23.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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.
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 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.1% 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, 35.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 8.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).
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 (5.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report German roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (68.3%) 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 (23.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.