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Rockaway Beach, MO

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Overview


Rockaway Beach is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 840 people and just one neighborhood, Rockaway Beach is the 367th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Rockaway Beach isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rockaway Beach are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rockaway Beach is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockaway Beach who work in office and administrative support (15.53%), food service (11.80%), and sales jobs (9.94%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Rockaway Beach’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Rockaway Beach is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Rockaway Beach is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.06% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Rockaway Beach in 2018 was $23,903, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,612 for a family of four. However, Rockaway Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rockaway Beach is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rockaway Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockaway Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rockaway Beach include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French.

The most common language spoken in Rockaway Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Rockaway Beach neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 4.8% have Dutch 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 Rockaway Beach are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.1% 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, 29.5% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.7%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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 Rockaway Beach, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (56.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (15.0%) . 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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