The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ridgeway has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ridgeway a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Ridgeway does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Ridgeway are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.06% of adults in Ridgeway having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ridgeway in 2022 was $33,126, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,504 for a family of four. However, Ridgeway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ridgeway also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.57% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Ridgeway is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ridgeway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridgeway residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ridgeway include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Ridgeway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
