Ridgeway is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 258 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ridgeway is the 256th largest community in South Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ridgeway is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ridgeway is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgeway who work in office and administrative support (13.95%), sales jobs (13.18%), and food service (12.40%). Also of interest is that Ridgeway has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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. Being a small town, Ridgeway does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Ridgeway is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.57% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Ridgeway in 2022 was $29,501, which is upper middle income relative to South Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,004 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 39.44% of its population below the federal poverty line.Ridgeway is an extremely 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 European. The most common language spoken in Ridgeway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
