Photo: Dwight Burdette · CC BY 3.0Ridgeway Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Jobs and income earn Ridgeway Township B−; getting around on foot earns it C−. There are 97 jobs in Ridgeway Township, against 512 working residents. Only 2% stay in Ridgeway Township for work; outside it, Tecumseh is the main destination (10%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ridgeway Township at work: what stands out
Ridgeway Township is a place people come home to
There are 97 jobs based in Ridgeway Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ridgeway Township has about 1,100 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Ridgeway Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 24 across Michigan. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; 2021 is the newest year Michigan has published; with 512 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Ridgeway Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ridgeway Township is better than 55% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ridgeway Township’s grade. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Ridgeway Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
The commuting and job counts on this page are Census LEHD 2021: Michigan reports later than other states, so its newest year is two years behind.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ridgeway Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
Ridgeway Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 503 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 88 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Ridgeway Township on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
The daily trip from Ridgeway Township: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ridgeway Township workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 625 commuters (the 13% who work from home are left out). Across Michigan: 86% 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.
Where Ridgeway Township goes to work
Where Ridgeway Township clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Jobs in Ridgeway Township: what the 97 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ridgeway Township, 2011 → 2021: 147 → 97. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ridgeway Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Ridgeway Township
About 18% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2021.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Ridgeway Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ridgeway Township is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 719 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). 2.3% of Ridgeway Township households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ridgeway Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ridgeway Township is 1,944th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 166 | Dimondale MI | 1,183 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,942 | Somerset TX | 1,872 | $78K | 17.2% | 6.0% | 4% | B− |
| 1,943 | Saratoga WY | 1,766 | $85K | 2.9% | 0.0% | 50% | B− |
| 1,944 | Ridgeway Township MI | 1,484 | $80K | 10.1% | 2.0% | 2% | B− |
| 1,945 | Waterford VT | 1,288 | $109K | 7.0% | 1.0% | 3% | B− |
| 1,946 | Rio FL | 1,232 | $92K | 13.6% | 17.6% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Township, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
The towns around Ridgeway Township
The biggest share goes to Dundee Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ridgeway Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgeway Township | – | B− | C− | 32 min | $80,250 |
| Raisin Township | under 3% | B | C+ | 29 min | $95,766 |
| Macon Township | under 3% | C+ | D | 26 min | $78,813 |
| Deerfield Township | under 3% | B+ | D | 33 min | $77,065 |
| Blissfield Township | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Dundee Township | 4% | A− | B− | 29 min | $86,789 |
Same-state neighbors only. Blissfield Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ridgeway Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. 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 Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ridgeway Township?
$80,250 (±$15,045) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ridgeway Township?
10.1%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ridgeway Township?
32 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ridgeway Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tecumseh (10%, 6 mi), Adrian (7%, 12 mi), Pittsfield Township (6%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Ridgeway Township walkable?
Ridgeway Township is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ridgeway Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ridgeway Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ridgeway Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. 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.