Rock Creek is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 660 people and just one neighborhood, Rock Creek is the 635th largest community in Ohio. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Rock Creek, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Rock Creek, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Rock Creek’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Rock Creek does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $52,083.00.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rock Creek is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.90% of the Rock Creek workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rock Creek is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rock Creek who work in office and administrative support (13.55%), maintenance occupations (8.71%), and sales jobs (6.77%).
The overall crime rate in Rock Creek is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Rock 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. Rock Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rock Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rock Creek may be for you.
As is often the case in a small village, Rock Creek doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Rock Creek have a very low rate of college education: just 7.39% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Rock Creek in 2022 was $23,319, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,276 for a family of four. However, Rock Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rock Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rock Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rock Creek include German, Scottish, Irish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Rock Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.1% have Lithuanian ancestry.
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 Rock Creek are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.3% 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, 37.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% 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 Rock Creek, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report English roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (88.5%) 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 (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.