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!) Ridge 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. Ridge has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ridge than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ridge may be for you.
In Ridge, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.56 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
In terms of college education, Ridge is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.27% of adults in Ridge have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ridge in 2022 was $52,442, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $209,768 for a family of four. However, Ridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ridge is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ridge include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Ridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
