Ridgely is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 1,605 people and just one neighborhood, Ridgely is the 210th largest community in Maryland.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ridgely is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ridgely is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgely who work in management occupations (13.42%), office and administrative support (12.14%), and food service (10.50%).
Also of interest is that Ridgely has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Ridgely is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ridgely, the average commute to work is 31.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Ridgely does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Ridgely are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.05% of adults in Ridgely have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Ridgely in 2022 was $30,989, which is low income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,956 for a family of four. However, Ridgely contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ridgely is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ridgely home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridgely residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ridgely also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.65% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ridgely include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Ridgely is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Urdu.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ridgely are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 66.4% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 39.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.2%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Ridgely, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report English roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.