Batesburg-Leesville is a somewhat small town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 5,297 people and ten associated neighborhoods, Batesburg-Leesville is the 75th largest community in South Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Batesburg-Leesville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Batesburg-Leesville is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Batesburg-Leesville who work in maintenance occupations (12.98%), healthcare (9.02%), and sales jobs (8.56%). Of important note, Batesburg-Leesville is also a town of artists. Batesburg-Leesville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Batesburg-Leesville’s character. 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!) Batesburg-Leesville 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. Batesburg-Leesville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Batesburg-Leesville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Batesburg-Leesville may be for you. Batesburg-Leesville 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.The percentage of adults in Batesburg-Leesville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.05% of the adults in Batesburg-Leesville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Batesburg-Leesville in 2022 was $27,556, which is middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,224 for a family of four. However, Batesburg-Leesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Batesburg-Leesville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Batesburg-Leesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Batesburg-Leesville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Batesburg-Leesville include English, German, Irish, African, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Batesburg-Leesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
