Rocky Point is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,476 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rocky Point is the 353rd largest community in North Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rocky Point is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.90% of the Rocky Point workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rocky Point is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rocky Point who work in teaching (10.90%), sales jobs (10.47%), and healthcare suport services (7.48%). 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 33.31 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit. For a small town, Rocky Point has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the train. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Rocky Point exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.In Rocky Point, just 6.94% 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 $22,396, which is low income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,584 for a family of four. However, Rocky Point contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Rocky Point also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.80% of its population below the federal poverty line.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 31.87% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rocky Point include English, Scots-Irish, Irish, German, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Rocky Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
