Rockville is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,398 people and just one neighborhood, Rockville is the 290th largest community in Minnesota.
Rockville real estate is some of the most expensive in Minnesota, although Rockville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Rockville is a blue-collar town, with 38.20% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Rockville is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockville who work in management occupations (12.81%), healthcare (10.70%), and office and administrative support (9.69%).
Because of many things, Rockville 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, Rockville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Rockville 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.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Rockville 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. Rockville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rockville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rockville may be for you.
Being a small city, Rockville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Rockville is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.25% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Rockville in 2018 was $42,365, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $169,460 for a family of four. However, Rockville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rockville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rockville include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Rockville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
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. 67.2% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 52.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 5.6% have Swedish ancestry.
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 Rockville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.2% 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 80.3% 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, 34.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 34.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).
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 Rockville, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (52.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Swedish roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.3%), among others.
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 (56.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
