Ridgeway is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 256 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ridgeway is the 256th largest community in South Carolina. Ridgeway has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.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 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%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ridgeway has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ridgeway a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. 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.
