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Red Rock, AZ

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Overview


Red Rock is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 2,625 people and just one neighborhood, Red Rock is the 113th largest community in Arizona. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Red Rock, 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 Red Rock, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Red Rock’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Red Rock does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $76,851.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Red Rock is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Red Rock is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Red Rock who work in sales jobs (17.12%), management occupations (10.84%), and computer science and math (9.83%).

Also of interest is that Red Rock has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.50% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Red Rock is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Red Rock really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Red Rock perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

In Red Rock, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 38.36 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Red Rock doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Red Rock is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.06% of adults in Red Rock have a college degree.

The per capita income in Red Rock in 2022 was $32,824, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $131,296 for a family of four. However, Red Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Red Rock is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Red Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Red Rock residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Red Rock also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.10% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Red Rock include German, Italian, Irish, Scottish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Red Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the neighborhood. A whopping 76.5% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 4.9% have Scottish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Red Rock are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% 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 66.9% of America'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, 35.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.8%), and 11.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

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 85.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Red Rock, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.2%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (75.2%) 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 (16.5%) . 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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