Rough Rock () is a

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(CDP) in

Apache County, Arizona Apache County is a County (United States), county in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. Shaped in a long rectangle running north to south, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 66,021. The county ...

, United States. The population was 414 at the 2010 census.

Geography

According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1300 people, 113 households, and 89 families living in the CDP. The population density was . There were 152 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.2% Native American, 2.8%

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, 0.6% Asian, and 0.4% from two or more races. 0.2% of the population were

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or Latino of any race. There were 113 households, out of which 50.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% were married couples living together, 18.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.2% were non-families. 19.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.15 and the average family size was 4.97. In the CDP, the age distribution of the population shows 42.9% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 16.6% from 45 to 64, and 4.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 23 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.1 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $26,172, and the median income for a family was $26,484. Males had a median income of $28,068 versus $11,346 for females. The

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for the CDP was $6,741. About 23.7% of families and 29.8% of the population were below the

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, including 37.2% of those under age 18 and 20.0% of those age 65 or over.

Education

The area is served by Chinle Unified School District #24, – Chinle USD is depicted on page
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Chinle High School Chinle High School is a public high school (grades 9 to 12) in Chinle, an unincorporated area of Apache County, Arizona, United States. The school is the only high school in the Chinle Unified School District, and all of the district's elemen ...

. In addition the Rough Rock Community School is a tribal school associated with the

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Popular culture

The town is mentioned in

Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Awards, Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award-winning rec ...

' "Song For Martin": "In Rough Rock, Arizona, he lived for many years alone. A gangly kid from Colorado, who could sing the sweetest song...."

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Apache County, Arizona Census-designated places in Arizona Populated places on the Navajo Nation