Rocky Ford, CO
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None of the households in Rocky Ford, CO reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
Most people in Rocky Ford, CO drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 18.2 minutes. The average car ownership in Rocky Ford, CO was 2 cars per household.
The economy of Rocky Ford, CO employs 1.33k people. The largest industries in Rocky Ford, CO are , and the highest paying industries are .
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Rocky Ford, CO, are . This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Rocky Ford, CO.
This chart shows weekly unemployment insurance claims in Colorado (not-seasonally adjusted) compared with the four states with the most similar impact.
The most recent data point uses Advance State Claims data, which can be revised in subsequent weeks.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Rocky Ford, CO, are . This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Rocky Ford, CO, though some of these residents may live in Rocky Ford, CO and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
As of February 2023, there are 2.87M people employed in Colorado. This represents a 1.73% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.
Right after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, during April 2020, a general dip can be seen across industry sectors, resulting in an overall decline in employment by 11.9%.
The following chart shows monthly employment numbers for each industry sector in Colorado.
In the 2024 presidential election, the popular vote in Colorado went to Kamala Harris with 54.1% of the vote. The runner-up was Donald J. Trump (43.1%), followed by Robert Kennedy (1.12%).
Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are the senators currently representing the state of Colorado. In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
Colorado is currently represented by 8 members in the U.S. house, and members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms.
In the 2024 presidential election, the popular vote in Colorado went to Kamala Harris with 54.1% of the vote. The runner-up was Donald J. Trump (43.1%), followed by Robert Kennedy (1.12%).
The following chart shows the popular vote results in Colorado for each registered party from 1976 to 2024.
Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are the senators currently representing Colorado.
In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
The following chart shows elected senators in Colorado over time, excluding special elections, colored by their political party.
Colorado is currently represented by 8 members in the U.S. house.
Members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms, and the following chart shows the how the members for Colorado have changed over time starting in 2008.
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In 2022, NaNM% of men over 25 years of age had not completed any academic degree (no schooling), while NaNM% of women were in the same situation.
This visualization shows the gender distribution of the population according to the academic level reached.
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This visualization illustrates the percentage distribution of the population according to the highest educational level reached. You can filter the data by race by using the selector above.
People in Rocky Ford, CO have an average commute time of 18.2 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Rocky Ford, CO is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
The following map shows all of the places in Rocky Ford, CO colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
The following chart displays the households in Rocky Ford, CO distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the < $10k range.
In 2022, the income inequality in Colorado was 0.464 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.265% decline from 2021 to 2022, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The GINI for Colorado was lower than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Colorado in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Colorado across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2023, 79.1% of workers in Rocky Ford, CO drove alone to work, followed by those who carpooled to work (11.9%) and those who used some unspecified means to get work (4.94%).
The following chart shows the number of households using each mode of transportation over time, using a logarithmic scale on the y-axis to help better show variations in the smaller means of commuting.
Using averages, employees in Rocky Ford, CO have a shorter commute time (18.2 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.6 minutes). Additionally, N/A% of the workforce in Rocky Ford, CO have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Rocky Ford, CO compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Rocky Ford, CO distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Rocky Ford, CO have 2 cars.
N/A% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Rocky Ford, CO (N/A out of N/A people) live below the poverty line, a number that is approximately the same as the national average of N/A%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 12 - 14, followed by Females 6 - 11 and then Males < 5.
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The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.
N/A% of the population of Rocky Ford, CO has health coverage, with N/A% on employee plans, N/A% on Medicaid, N/A% on Medicare, N/A% on non-group plans, and N/A% on military or VA plans.
In N/A, insured persons according to age ranges were distributed in .
By gender, of the total number of insured persons, N/A were men and N/A were women.
The following chart shows the number of people with health coverage by gender.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Rocky Ford, CO changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
