Ridgeway’s household incomes are higher than in 68% of U.S. towns
16.6% of residents are in poverty; Alaska has 10.1%. The two grades for Ridgeway are C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers; Alaska has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Ridgeway’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Ridgeway is better than 25% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Ridgeway’s grade up ($90,391, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (22.6%) is left out: Ridgeway’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ridgeway could be anywhere from D− to B.
How long Ridgeway spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ridgeway workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 413 commuters (the 28% who work from home are left out). Across Alaska: 72% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Few in Ridgeway walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ridgeway is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 577 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Ridgeway households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ridgeway’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ridgeway places 3,692nd of 5,509 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,263 | Prudhoe Bay AK | 1,664 | — | 6.3% | 1.2% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,630 | North Pole AK | 2,477 | $92K | 4.9% | 4.6% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,764 | Bear Creek AK | 1,732 | $96K | 3.1% | 6.7% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,690 | Clarksfield Township OH | 1,588 | $73K | 9.8% | 8.5% | <1% | C |
| 3,691 | Bethel Township PA | 1,564 | $75K | 10.4% | 3.1% | 8% | C |
| 3,692 | Ridgeway AK | 1,997 | $90K | 16.6% | 22.6% | — | C |
| 3,693 | Piru CA | 2,185 | $89K | 15.8% | 9.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,694 | Colorado City CO | 1,615 | $45K | 5.1% | 0.0% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Ridgeway, the top three, the last and three more from Alaska.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Ridgeway: questions
What is the median household income in Ridgeway?
$90,391 (±$38,444) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ridgeway?
16.6%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ridgeway?
22 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Is Ridgeway walkable?
Ridgeway is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ridgeway without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ridgeway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ridgeway
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.