It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Rocky Point has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Rocky Point has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rocky Point than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rocky Point may be for you.
In Rocky Point, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.48 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Rocky Point does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Rocky Point, just 7.46% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
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.
