Rock Spring is a tiny town located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 891 people and just one neighborhood, Rock Spring is the 339th largest community in Georgia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Rock Spring is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rock Spring is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rock Spring who work in management occupations (18.33%), office and administrative support (16.26%), and healthcare (14.32%).
Also of interest is that Rock Spring has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Rock Spring 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. Rock Spring has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rock Spring than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rock Spring may be for you.
One downside of living in Rock Spring is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rock Spring, the average commute to work is 30.57 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Rock Spring does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Rock Spring is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.23% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Rock Spring in 2022 was $35,802, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,208 for a family of four. However, Rock Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rock Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rock Spring residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rock Spring include English, Irish, German, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Rock Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 particular note, 8.9% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 1.9% have Greek ancestry.
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 Spring are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.4% 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, 35.0% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 17.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% 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 Rock Spring, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report German roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.