Ridgway is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,962 people and just one neighborhood, Ridgway is the 386th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Ridgway, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.25% of Ridgway’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ridgway is a borough of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgway who work in sales jobs (10.29%), office and administrative support (9.86%), and management occupations (9.44%).
The percentage of adults in Ridgway who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.98% of the adults in Ridgway have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ridgway in 2022 was $26,743, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,972 for a family of four. However, Ridgway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ridgway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridgway residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ridgway include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Ridgway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.0%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 39.0% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 16.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Ridgway are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.7% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 40.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Ridgway, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.0%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.1%) 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 (13.6%) and 8.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.