PALMER, RW — June 13th, 2026
Saturday, Secretary of State Robloxrules756 and the Department of State released their official census analysis, and there’s a ton of things we can take away from the analysis.
#1 – Ridgeway Might Have a Response Problem
The census was given through the Department of State, and through Government Updates, which may be fine for regular polling, however for census polling may have been an inadequate way to reach the majority of the population, given by the number of responses (49) out of a relatively active community.
One of the first statistics you see shows how long members have had citizenship in the State of Ridgeway. This data shows that there’s more people who have been residents for over 5 years, than any other category before it. However, what we think it really shows is that a small minority who has been attached to the group longer is more willing to respond to the census than other groups.
#2 – Employed Residents are more likely to participate in civics activities
Because of the lack of responses, the data indicates that the majority of residents work in the Government or Private Sector, which you don’t have to be a genius to figure out that isn’t accurate. Out of 49 residents, only 6 were unemployed with the rest working either in the Government of the Private Sector. In this case, employed residents are the minority, however they are representing the majority of responses.
With that being said, when you narrow down the sample to for example, just government employed residents, the data reflects slightly more accurate results, which is expected because of the larger pool of government employees who responded
The Department of State released their results according to the amount of responses that they received, and because of that much of the data should be taken with a grain of salt, however when the sample gets smaller, more accurate results are reflected. We ask you to think objectively about the statistics that you see when reading the results of the census.
There’s a lot more to be dissected from the census, which you can see this Thursday on The Ridgeway Review.
View The 2026 Ridgeway 2026 census here