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SheetTN-RIDGESIDE-TN · Ridgeside, TN 907 pop · income 97th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Ridgeside
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Ridgeside on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Decaturville · lowest
40,500
Decaturville · lowest
40,500 median HH income
22.8% of the leader · rank #1
Ridgeside · this city
177,500
Ridgeside · this city
177,500 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Bradley Garde… · near
177,590
Bradley Garde… · near
177,590 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Pleasantville · near
177,591
Pleasantville · near
177,591 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Goshen · near
177,604
Goshen · near
177,604 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Schaefer Lake · near
177,632
Schaefer Lake · near
177,632 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Vicksburg CDP… · highest
177,688
Vicksburg CDP… · highest
177,688 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Ridgeside on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 907.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Ridgeside lands in the 97th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
97th
percentile, household income
83rd
percentile, home value
34th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Ridgeside, TN
907 people live in Ridgeside, Tennessee - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Ridgeside brings in $177,500 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.9%. Ridgeside's housing stock carries a median value of $473,900, and the median resident age is 43.2 years. Educational attainment runs 76.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Tennessee run below the national norm: the state registers 91.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,118 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $218 across Tennessee, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 52.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Ridgeside's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to housing and income to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Ridgeside, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Ridgeside?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
How far does income reach against housing in Ridgeside?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Ridgeside growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -6 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.3% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Which cities make useful reference points for Ridgeside?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Tennessee, the closest population matches are Bulls Gap (910 residents, $50,066 income); Fowlkes (898 residents, $43,813 income); Decaturville (895 residents, $40,500 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are North English, IA (907 residents); Desha, AR (908 residents); Mechanicsville, CT (906 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A+
$177,500
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
76.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
2.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living B+
91.9 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Ridgeside profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $177,500
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 76.2%
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 2.9%
Cost of living: 78/100 (B+) · 91.9 index
How does Ridgeside compare to other US cities?
Here's how Ridgeside stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income97% higher than other cities
Home value83% pricier than other cities
Median rent34% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Ridgeside against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Tennessee only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Tennessee-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Ridgeside near the bottom of Tennessee's cities
Among the 482 Tennessee cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Ridgeside ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Ridgeside only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#6 of 458
99th percentile in Tennessee
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 482
0th percentile in Tennessee
Median Home Value
#22 of 455
95th percentile in Tennessee
Poverty Rate
#393 of 482
18th percentile in Tennessee
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#8 of 482
98th percentile in Tennessee
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Tennessee only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
97th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Ridgeside's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$473,90017th percentilemore affordable than 17% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Ridgeside's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,870 of 15,516
More affordable than 69% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,289 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Ridgeside sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,870 of 15,516 and #4,289 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$177,500Ridgeside, TN median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Ridgeside, TN median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Ridgeside, TN.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)76.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
907
Median Income
$177,500
Median Home Value
$473,900
Median Age
43.2
Poverty Rate
2.9%
Labor force participation
63.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
76.2%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Ridgeside's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
447 residents
2021
448 residents
2022
448 residents
2023
447 residents
2024
445 residents
2025
441 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.8%
Carpool
2.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
21.4%
Based on 393 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Tennessee statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $218
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Tennessee at $218 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Tennessee statewide averages, not a meter reading for Ridgeside. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Tennessee's BEA cost-of-living index is 91.9 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Ridgeside is $1,118/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Tennessee statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 52.5 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Tennessee statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Ridgeside sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Ridgeside compares to similar-size Tennessee cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.