Ridgeland, South Carolina Ridgeland, South Carolina Location of Ridgeland, South Carolina Location of Ridgeland, South Carolina State South Carolina Website Ridgeland, South Carolina Ridgeland is a town in Jasper County, South Carolina, United States.
Enumeration Bureau, Ridgeland is encompassed inside the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Ridgeland is home to the Ridgeland Correctional Institution, a medium security prison directed by the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
Ridgeland was originally known as Gopher Hill in 1894, derived from the "gopher tortoise," which is indigenous to the region but that name was not considered good enough for a new barns station so it was changed to Ridgeland in 1902 for the fact the town stands upon the highest hill between Charleston and Savannah. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.4 square miles (6.3 km ), of which, 2.4 square miles (6.2 km ) of it is territory and 0.41% is water. There were 517 homeholds out of which 33.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 35.2% were married couples living together, 22.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 35.6% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 14.9% under the age of 18, 16.6% from 18 to 24, 44.5% from 25 to 44, 15.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The existence of the Ridgeland Correctional Institution in the town limits heavily skews the sex ratio.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $27,679, and the median income for a family was $37,647.
About 20.0% of families and 24.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 32.7% of those under age 18 and 14.5% of those age 65 or over.
Ridgeland is home to Ridgeland Elementary School and Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School.
I-95, the primary north-south highway on the Eastern Seaboard runs through Ridgeland.
A trumpet interchange to a connecting road exists south of the town at Exit 18 north of Switzerland, though the chief interchanges inside the improve are Exits 21 and 22.
The road is known locally as Jacob Smart Boulevard and has an interchange with I-95 at Exit 22, which it joins in an overlap until Point South at Exit 33.
The road is mainly four lanes wide, with some segments having a suicide lane, although it becomes a four-lane divided highway north of downtown Ridgeland before joining I-95 in the aforementioned overlap.
Within Ridgeland it intersects at U.S.
The line runs along the west side of US 17 until the south end of the I-95 overlap, where it then runs along Nuna Rock Road (Old US 17) until it reaches Coosawhatchie.
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