Rockwell City - Pomeroy is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,944 people and just one neighborhood, Rockwell City - Pomeroy is the 167th largest community in Iowa.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Rockwell City - Pomeroy is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rockwell City - Pomeroy is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockwell City - Pomeroy who work in management occupations (8.99%), teaching (8.83%), and healthcare (7.45%).
Overall, Rockwell City - Pomeroy’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
As is often the case in a small town, Rockwell City - Pomeroy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Rockwell City - Pomeroy is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.10% of adults 25 and older in Rockwell City - Pomeroy have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rockwell City - Pomeroy in 2022 was $31,400, which is lower middle income relative to Iowa, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,600 for a family of four. However, Rockwell City - Pomeroy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rockwell City - Pomeroy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockwell City - Pomeroy residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Rockwell City - Pomeroy include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Rockwell City - Pomeroy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 35.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 Rockwell City - Pomeroy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 63.1% of America'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 executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.
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 Rockwell City - Pomeroy, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (5.0%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.4%) 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 (19.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.