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Does real estate here hold its value?
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Rockholds is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 330 people and just one neighborhood, Rockholds is the 348th largest community in Kentucky.
Occupations and Workforce
Rockholds is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Rockholds is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockholds who work in food service (45.10%), maintenance occupations (29.41%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Rockholds’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Rockholds has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rockholds a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Rockholds is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rockholds, the average commute to work is 37.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Rockholds doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
In terms of college education, Rockholds ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.88% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rockholds in 2022 was $21,053, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,212 for a family of four. However, Rockholds contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Rockholds also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.98% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Rockholds home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockholds residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rockholds include Irish, German, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Rockholds is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Portuguese.
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 Rockholds, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Occupations
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (57.1%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
People
Of note, 59.2% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Modes of Transportation
More people in choose to walk to work each day (13.4%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish 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 Rockholds are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 59.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.8% of U.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, 42.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.9%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Rockholds, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (23.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report German roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (65.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (13.4%) and 10.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
