Rocky Mount is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,068 people and just one neighborhood, Rocky Mount is the 346th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some towns, Rocky Mount isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rocky Mount are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rocky Mount is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rocky Mount who work in office and administrative support (18.49%), sales jobs (17.19%), and maintenance occupations (14.58%).
Another notable thing is that Rocky Mount is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Rocky Mount’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Rocky Mount 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. Rocky Mount has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rocky Mount than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rocky Mount may be for you.
Being a small town, Rocky Mount does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Rocky Mount with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.87% of adults in Rocky Mount have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rocky Mount in 2022 was $36,215, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,860 for a family of four. However, Rocky Mount contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rocky Mount home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rocky Mount residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Rocky Mount include German, Irish, English, French, and Northern European.
The most common language spoken in Rocky Mount is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 77.3% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 70.0% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, of note, 55.1% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
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 Rocky Mount are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 55.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.7% 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, 37.8% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.6%), and 18.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 Rocky Mount, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report English roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.0%).
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 (36.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (14.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.