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Rockvale - Coal Creek, CO

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Overview


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.

Occupations and Workforce

Rockvale - Coal Creek is a blue-collar town, with 35.52% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Rockvale - Coal Creek is worth considering.

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.

Rockvale - Coal Creek is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 15.0% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 20 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

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.

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 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.

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 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

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.

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 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.


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