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Rolling Fork, MS

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Overview


Rolling Fork is a very small city located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,509 people and just one neighborhood, Rolling Fork is the 131st largest community in Mississippi. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Rolling Fork, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Rolling Fork, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Rolling Fork’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Rolling Fork does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $41,208.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rolling Fork is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.34% of the Rolling Fork workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rolling Fork is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rolling Fork who work in sales jobs (13.54%), office and administrative support (13.41%), and maintenance occupations (12.90%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small city, Rolling Fork doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Rolling Fork with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.06% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rolling Fork in 2022 was $19,015, which is lower middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $76,060 for a family of four. However, Rolling Fork contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rolling Fork is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rolling Fork home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rolling Fork residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Rolling Fork include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Rolling Fork is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

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.

Modes of Transportation

If your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 5.9% of residents in the neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 98.7% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.

Also, in the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 25.2% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 63.5% 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 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

People

Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 18.2% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.

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 Rolling Fork are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.4% 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, 33.2% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.1%), and 13.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Rolling Fork, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (2.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (1.4%).

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (63.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (66.9%) 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 (25.2%) and 5.9% of residents also bicycle for their daily commute. 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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