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.Batesburg-Leesville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Batesburg-Leesville is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Batesburg-Leesville who work in maintenance occupations (11.59%), sales jobs (10.08%), and healthcare (9.04%). 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. As is often the case in a small town, Batesburg-Leesville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of adults in Batesburg-Leesville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.83% of the adults in Batesburg-Leesville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Batesburg-Leesville in 2022 was $29,045, 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 $116,180 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 German, English, Irish, African, and French. The most common language spoken in Batesburg-Leesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
