Ridgeway is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 255 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ridgeway is the 256th largest community in South Carolina.Ridgeway is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ridgeway is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgeway who work in food service (15.67%), management occupations (10.45%), and sales jobs (9.70%). A relatively large number of people in Ridgeway telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.70% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ridgeway has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ridgeway has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ridgeway than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ridgeway may be for you. Ridgeway is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.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.
