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, High Ridge has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes High Ridge a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
High Ridge is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in High Ridge is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.66% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in High Ridge in 2022 was $34,506, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $138,024 for a family of four. However, High Ridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
High Ridge is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call High Ridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of High Ridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in High Ridge include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in High Ridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
