Rockford - Marble Rock is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,364 people and just one neighborhood, Rockford - Marble Rock is the 230th largest community in Iowa. Rockford - Marble Rock has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Rockford - Marble Rock is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Rockford - Marble Rock is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockford - Marble Rock who work in management occupations (18.35%), sales jobs (11.24%), and healthcare (8.99%).
Rockford - Marble Rock’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Rockford - Marble Rock is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Rockford - Marble Rock with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.54% of adults in Rockford - Marble Rock have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rockford - Marble Rock in 2022 was $39,330, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $157,320 for a family of four. However, Rockford - Marble Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rockford - Marble Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockford - Marble Rock residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Rockford - Marble Rock include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Rockford - Marble Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Rockford - Marble Rock are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.3% 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, 39.2% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Rockford - Marble Rock, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report English roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (8.5%) and 6.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.