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Rock Spring, GA

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Overview


Rock Spring is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 891 people and just one neighborhood, Rock Spring is the 339th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Rock Spring isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rock Spring are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rock Spring is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rock Spring who work in office and administrative support (18.20%), sales jobs (15.66%), and management occupations (15.66%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Rock Spring has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rock Spring a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The education level of Rock Spring citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.01% of adults in Rock Spring have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Rock Spring in 2018 was $29,583, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,332 for a family of four. However, Rock Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Rock Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rock Spring residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rock Spring include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Rock Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Russian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

Of particular note, 8.9% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Occupations

With 3.8% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 98.3% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have British 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 Rock Spring are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.5% 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, 35.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% 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 Rock Spring, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report German roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of British ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (8.6%) . 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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