Ridgeville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Ridgeville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ridgeville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
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 33.06 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Ridgeville is a very car-oriented town. 96.49% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Ridgeville is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Ridgeville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Ridgeville 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.
Ridgeville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.70% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ridgeville in 2022 was $9,809, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $39,236 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, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Ridgeville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
