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.

Overall, Ruffin’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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!) Ruffin 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. Ruffin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ruffin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ruffin may be for you.

One downside of living in Ruffin is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ruffin, the average commute to work is 31.19 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Ruffin 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.

Ruffin ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college 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.