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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

Rock Spring is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-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 management occupations (18.33%), office and administrative support (16.26%), and healthcare (14.32%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Rock Spring 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 Spring has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rock Spring than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rock Spring may be for you.

One downside of living in Rock Spring, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.57 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Rock Spring who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.23% of adults in Rock Spring have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Rock Spring in 2018 was $35,802, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,208 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, European, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Greek 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 and 1.9% have Greek ancestry.

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 Rock Spring are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 35.0% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 17.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

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 Rock Spring, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report German roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (43.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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