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Rock Tavern, NY

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Overview


Rock Tavern is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 4,571 people and just one neighborhood, Rock Tavern is the 352nd largest community in New York.

Housing costs in Rock Tavern are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Rock Tavern isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rock Tavern are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rock Tavern is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rock Tavern who work in teaching (16.94%), management occupations (15.30%), and sales jobs (9.00%).

Also of interest is that Rock Tavern has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Rock Tavern telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.91% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Rock Tavern is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Rock Tavern a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Rock Tavern has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Rock Tavern’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Rock Tavern, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.44 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

Rock Tavern is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 44.06% of adults in Rock Tavern have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in Rock Tavern in 2022 was $44,678, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $178,712 for a family of four.

Rock Tavern is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rock Tavern home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rock Tavern residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Rock Tavern also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.15% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rock Tavern include Irish, Italian, German, Polish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Rock Tavern is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French Creole.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

A majority of the adults in the neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for New York by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in New York. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children and urban sophisticates.

Length of Commute

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. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 9.7% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.0% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Italian and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Italian ancestry and 11.5% have Puerto Rican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Tavern are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 91.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.2% 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 64.1% 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, 51.8% 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 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 85.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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 Rock Tavern, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (21.7%), and residents who report German roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (11.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (9.7%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (82.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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