Pine Ridge is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Darlington County,

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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census with a population of 807. The CDP is in northwestern Darlington County, along

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, which leads southeast to Hartsville and northwest to McBee. A portion of the eastern border of the CDP follows Black Creek, a southeast-flowing tributary of the

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, and the south border of the CDP follows Beaverdam Creek, an east-flowing tributary of Black Creek. The H. B. Robinson Nuclear Generating Station is just outside the northeast border of the CDP, adjacent to Lake Robinson, a reservoir built on Black Creek.

Demographics

2020 census

''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''

References

Census-designated places in Darlington County, South Carolina Census-designated places in South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-geo-stub