Rock Valley - Ireton is a somewhat small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 6,658 people and just one neighborhood, Rock Valley - Ireton is the 63rd largest community in Iowa.
Rock Valley - Ireton real estate is some of the most expensive in Iowa, although Rock Valley - Ireton house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Rock Valley - Ireton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.94% of Rock Valley - Ireton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Rock Valley - Ireton is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rock Valley - Ireton who work in office and administrative support (13.48%), sales jobs (10.17%), and teaching (9.01%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.29% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Because of many things, Rock Valley - Ireton is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Rock Valley - Ireton really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Rock Valley - Ireton perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Rock Valley - Ireton spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.55 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
The education level of Rock Valley - Ireton citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.32% of adults 25 and older in Rock Valley - Ireton have a college degree.
The per capita income in Rock Valley - Ireton in 2022 was $35,119, which is middle income relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,476 for a family of four. However, Rock Valley - Ireton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rock Valley - Ireton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rock Valley - Ireton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rock Valley - Ireton residents report their race to be White. Rock Valley - Ireton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.56% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rock Valley - Ireton include Dutch, German, English, Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Rock Valley - Ireton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.
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.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 58.3% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in IA. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 46.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.2% have Swiss 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 Rock Valley - Ireton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.3% 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 57.8% of America'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, 35.1% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.8%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.6%).
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 Valley - Ireton, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Dutch (46.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.2%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.