Ridgeway - Gilman City is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,202 people and just one neighborhood, Ridgeway - Gilman City is the 198th largest community in Missouri. Ridgeway - Gilman City has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ridgeway - Gilman City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.15% of the Ridgeway - Gilman City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ridgeway - Gilman City is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgeway - Gilman City who work in sales jobs (12.60%), management occupations (12.47%), and teaching (9.47%).
The citizens of Ridgeway - Gilman City are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.47% of adults in Ridgeway - Gilman City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Ridgeway - Gilman City in 2022 was $24,699, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,796 for a family of four. However, Ridgeway - Gilman City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ridgeway - Gilman City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridgeway - Gilman City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ridgeway - Gilman City include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Ridgeway - Gilman City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Ridgeway - Gilman City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 8 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ridgeway - Gilman City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.5% 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, 30.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Ridgeway - Gilman City, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.