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Rockholds, KY

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Overview


Rockholds is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 330 people and just one neighborhood, Rockholds is the 348th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Rockholds isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rockholds are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rockholds is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockholds who work in food service (40.74%), maintenance occupations (33.95%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Rockholds’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Rockholds has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rockholds a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Rockholds, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.50 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Rockholds does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Rockholds ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rockholds in 2022 was $21,618, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,472 for a family of four. However, Rockholds contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Rockholds home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockholds residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rockholds include Irish, English, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Rockholds is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Portuguese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Rockholds, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 60.3% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

In addition, one of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (53.7%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.0% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.3% of America's neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (10.7%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Rockholds are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 49.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 46.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 21.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.7%), and 15.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Rockholds, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report English roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (64.7%) 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 (17.4%) and 10.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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