| Official Name: | Ballentine, South Carolina |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Name1: | South Carolina |
| Subdivision Name2: | Richland |
| Area Land Km2: | 5.6 |
| Population As Of: | 2000 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 29002[1] |
Ballentine is an unincorporated community in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina metropolitan area.
| White (non-Hispanic) | 6,876 | 84.78% | |
| Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 464 | 5.72% | |
| Native American | 8 | 0.1% | |
| Asian | 214 | 2.64% | |
| Pacific Islander | 3 | 0.04% | |
| Other/Mixed | 294 | 3.63% | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 251 | 3.09% |
The community was named after the Ballentine family of pioneer settlers.[3]
In 1925, Ballentine had 50 inhabitants.[4]
There have been unsuccessful attempts to incorporate Ballentine as a town.[5]
The John Jacob Calhoun Koon Farmstead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Public education in Ballentine is administered by Lexington & Richland County School District Five, which operates Ballentine Elementary School in the community.
Ballentine has a public library, a branch of the Richland County Library.[6]