Rock River, Wyoming
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Rock River is a town in Albany County, Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

, in the United States
United States
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. As of the 2000 census
United States Census, 2000
The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

, the town population was 235.

Geography

Rock River is located at 41°44′27"N 105°58′29"W (41.740770, -105.974602).

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau
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, the town has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.1 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the census
Census
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of 2000, there were 235 people, 94 households, and 67 families residing in the town. The population density
Population density
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 was 100.1 people per square mile (38.6/km²). There were 123 housing units at an average density of 52.4 per square mile (20.2/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 96.17% White, 3.40% Native American and 0.43% Asian. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.53% of the population.

There were 94 households out of which 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.7% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 5.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.7% were non-families. 24.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 2.99.

In the town the population was spread out with 26.8% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 26.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 117.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.8 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $24,306, and the median income for a family was $31,250. Males had a median income of $25,250 versus $18,125 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the town was $11,602. About 14.1% of families and 24.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 39.5% of those under the age of eighteen and 26.3% of those sixty five or over.

Education

Public education in the town of Rock River is provided by Rock River school, which is a part of Albany County School District #1
Albany County School District Number 1
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. Grades 9 through 12 are expected to contain about 8 total students per grade through the 2010-2011 school year.
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