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. Much of the housing stock in Ridgeway was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.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 service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgeway who work in food service (20.14%), sales jobs (10.07%), and office and administrative support (9.35%). 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.The citizens of Ridgeway are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.44% of adults in Ridgeway having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Ridgeway in 2022 was $33,067, 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 $132,268 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 38.75% 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, Irish, English, Scottish, and European. The most common language spoken in Ridgeway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Spanish.
