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Rockwood borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Rockwood borough is a Census borough of 793 people across 0.33 square miles of land, in Somerset County. Median household income is $52,000, 65.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $625,000.
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Rockwood
What Rockwood is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area0.33 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,374
- County holding the largest share of its areaSomerset County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rockwood
How many people live in Rockwood
- Population793
- Median age42.2
- Population under 18178 plus or minus 45
- Share under 1822.4 percent
- Population 65 and over159 plus or minus 67
- Share 65 and over20.1 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Households354 plus or minus 82
- Family households164 plus or minus 43
- Share of households that are families46.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rockwood
Income and work in Rockwood
- Median household income$52,000 plus or minus $13,074
- Per capita income$29,747
- Civilian labor force380 plus or minus 85
- Employed361 plus or minus 83
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 14
- Unemployment rate5.0 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over566 plus or minus 118
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.6 percent plus or minus 23.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.7 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.5 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rockwood
Housing in Rockwood
- Housing units395 plus or minus 84
- Occupied units354 plus or minus 82
- Vacant units41 plus or minus 26
- Vacancy rate10.4 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Owner occupied232 plus or minus 72
- Renter occupied122 plus or minus 36
- Ownership rate65.5 percent plus or minus 13.5
- Median owner-occupied home value$90,600 plus or minus $23,554
- Median gross rent, monthly$625
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.4 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Single family units223 plus or minus 45
- Share single family56.5 percent plus or minus 16.5
- Units in buildings of two or more119 plus or minus 42
- Share in buildings of two or more30.1 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Mobile homes53 plus or minus 61
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rockwood
How Rockwood gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute345 plus or minus 83
- Commuting under 15 minutes59 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting under 15 minutes17.1 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more95 plus or minus 32
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.5 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Drove alone87.1 percent
- Carpooled6.0 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked5.5 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Worked from home0.9 percent plus or minus 1.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rockwood
SBA loans in Rockwood (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$625,000
- Average approval$312,500
- Median approval$575,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$575,000
- Largest approval$575,000
- Jobs supported10
- Jobs per approval5.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term183 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Rockwood
Flood risk in Rockwood
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number422045
- Currently effective map date09/19/12
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Somerset County, not Rockwood
Somerset County context, not Rockwood figures
These are Somerset County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Rockwood measurements.
- Establishments in Somerset County1,647
- Employment at those establishments, Somerset County18,678
- Covered employment, Somerset County23,303
- Average annual pay, Somerset County$50,925
- Average weekly wage, Somerset County$979
- Housing units permitted, Somerset County72
- Of those, single family, Somerset County72
- County product, 2024, Somerset County$3,037,840,000
- County product change over the prior year, Somerset County2.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Somerset County$62,846
Every figure in this section is published for Somerset County as a whole and is not a measurement of Rockwood. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Rockwood questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Rockwood, Pennsylvania?
793, in 354 households. Rockwood borough covers 0.33 square miles of land, which is 2,374 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Rockwood in?
Somerset County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Rockwood?
$52,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $90,600. Median gross rent is $625 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Rockwood businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $625,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $575,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Rockwood, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Rockwood borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Rockwood. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Rockwood in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Rockwood appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 422045, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Rockwood figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Somerset County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Rockwood.
Is zoning published for Rockwood?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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