Red Rock is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 410 people and just one neighborhood, Red Rock is the 962nd largest community in Texas.
Red Rock is a blue-collar town, with 64.84% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Red Rock is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Red Rock who work in office and administrative support (35.16%), sales jobs (0.00%), and personal care services (0.00%).
A relatively large number of people in Red Rock telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.96% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Red Rock 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. Red Rock has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Red Rock than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Red Rock may be for you.
One downside of living in Red Rock, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.35 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Red Rock doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Red Rock ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.18% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Red Rock in 2022 was $18,556, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,224 for a family of four. However, Red Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Red Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Red Rock residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Red Rock include German, Scottish, French, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Red 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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry.
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 Red Rock are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 33.0% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.7%), and 16.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.5%).
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 Red Rock, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (28.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (57.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (12.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.