Rockvale - Coal Creek is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 2,878 people and just one neighborhood, Rockvale - Coal Creek is the 121st largest community in Colorado.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rockvale - Coal Creek is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.52% of the Rockvale - Coal Creek workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rockvale - Coal Creek is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockvale - Coal Creek who work in maintenance occupations (10.47%), sales jobs (8.01%), and office and administrative support (6.83%).
Also of interest is that Rockvale - Coal Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Rockvale - Coal Creek 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. Rockvale - Coal Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rockvale - Coal Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rockvale - Coal Creek may be for you.
One downside of living in Rockvale - Coal Creek, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.82 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Rockvale - Coal Creek doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Rockvale - Coal Creek are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.33% of adults in Rockvale - Coal Creek have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Rockvale - Coal Creek in 2022 was $26,371, which is low income relative to Colorado, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,484 for a family of four. However, Rockvale - Coal Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rockvale - Coal Creek is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rockvale - Coal Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockvale - Coal Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Rockvale - Coal Creek also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.58% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rockvale - Coal Creek include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Rockvale - Coal Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Rockvale - Coal Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.1% 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, 33.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.9%), and 15.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Rockvale - Coal Creek, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (10.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.7%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (18.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.