Ridgeway is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 739 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ridgeway is the 311th largest community in Virginia.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.57% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ridgeway has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ridgeway has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ridgeway than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ridgeway may be for you.

One downside of living in Ridgeway is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ridgeway, the average commute to work is 34.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Ridgeway 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.

In terms of college education, Ridgeway is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.35% of adults 25 and older in Ridgeway have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ridgeway in 2018 was $21,476, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,904 for a family of four. However, Ridgeway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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 English, Irish, German, Italian, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Ridgeway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.