Rockaway Beach is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 840 people and just one neighborhood, Rockaway Beach is the 367th largest community in Missouri.
Rockaway Beach is a blue-collar town, with 37.13% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Rockaway Beach is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockaway Beach who work in office and administrative support (19.41%), maintenance occupations (12.24%), and food service (9.28%).
There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Rockaway Beach, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.
The overall crime rate in Rockaway Beach is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Rockaway Beach 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. Rockaway Beach has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rockaway Beach than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rockaway Beach may be for you.
Rockaway Beach is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Rockaway Beach overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Rockaway Beach, 22.27% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Rockaway Beach in 2022 was $22,816, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,264 for a family of four. However, Rockaway Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rockaway Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockaway Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rockaway Beach include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Rockaway Beach 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have British 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 Rockaway Beach are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.6% of U.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, 32.4% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.7%), and 18.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Rockaway Beach, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.1%), along with some British ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (16.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.