Ruffin is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 322 people and three associated neighborhoods, Ruffin is the 528th largest community in North Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Ruffin was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Ruffin economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Ruffin, where the median household income is .

Also of interest is that Ruffin has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Ruffin telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.26% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Ruffin’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, Ruffin has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ruffin a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Ruffin, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.19 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Ruffin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

In terms of college education, Ruffin ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ruffin in 2022 was $41,726, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,904 for a family of four. However, Ruffin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ruffin is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ruffin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ruffin residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ruffin include English, Scots-Irish, Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Ruffin is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.