Rockwood is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 5,538 people and three associated neighborhoods, Rockwood is the 108th largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Rockwood is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rockwood is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockwood who work in office and administrative support (13.10%), sales jobs (12.85%), and healthcare (9.58%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.56% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. 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!) Rockwood 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. Rockwood has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rockwood than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rockwood may be for you. Being a small city, Rockwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Rockwood is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.11% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Rockwood in 2022 was $28,667, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,668 for a family of four. However, Rockwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Rockwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rockwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Rockwood include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Rockwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and German/Yiddish.
