Ridgely is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,613 people and just one neighborhood, Ridgely is the 238th largest community in Tennessee.
Ridgely is a blue-collar town, with 37.18% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ridgely is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgely who work in food service (8.61%), law enforcement and fire fighting (8.19%), and healthcare suport services (7.98%).
As is often the case in a small town, Ridgely doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Ridgely with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.01% of adults in Ridgely have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ridgely in 2022 was $17,923, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,692 for a family of four. However, Ridgely contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ridgely also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.60% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Ridgely is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ridgely home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridgely residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ridgely include Irish, German, English, European, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Ridgely is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 23 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ridgely are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.2%), and 12.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Ridgely, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.6%).
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (18.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.