The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Rocky Point has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rocky Point a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Rocky Point, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.48 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Rocky Point does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Rocky Point has a very low overall level of education: only 7.46% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Rocky Point in 2022 was $25,949, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,796 for a family of four. However, Rocky Point contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rocky Point is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rocky Point home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rocky Point residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Rocky Point also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.92% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rocky Point include English, Scots-Irish, German, Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Rocky Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
