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Rockaway Beach, MO

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Overview


Rockaway Beach is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 827 people and just one neighborhood, Rockaway Beach is the 367th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Rockaway Beach, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.13% of Rockaway Beach’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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 many members of the armed forces living in Rockaway Beach. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.

Setting & Lifestyle

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.

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Rockaway Beach has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rockaway Beach a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small city, Rockaway Beach does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

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.

The Neighbors

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.

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, 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.

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 93.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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 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.

Getting to Work

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.


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