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Rock Creek, OH

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Overview


Rock Creek is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 660 people and just one neighborhood, Rock Creek is the 635th largest community in Ohio. Rock Creek has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Rock Creek, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.74% of Rock Creek’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Rock Creek is a village of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rock Creek who work in office and administrative support (11.11%), maintenance occupations (6.94%), and sales jobs (4.86%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Rock Creek is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The population of Rock Creek has a very low overall level of education: only 7.03% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Rock Creek in 2018 was $21,698, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,792 for a family of four. However, Rock Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Rock Creek, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian 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 Creek are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.6% 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, 36.4% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Creek, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report English roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (11.7%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 (30.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (10.2%) . 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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