Stony Point is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,146 people and two associated neighborhoods, Stony Point is the 389th largest community in North Carolina.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stony Point is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 59.60% of the Stony Point workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stony Point is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stony Point who work in office and administrative support (15.07%), sales jobs (7.47%), and food service (6.27%). Because of many things, Stony Point is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Stony Point really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Stony Point perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live. 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, Stony Point has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Stony Point a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Stony Point, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.79 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small town, Stony Point does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Stony Point who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.30% of the adults in Stony Point have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Stony Point in 2022 was $35,574, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,296 for a family of four. Stony Point is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Stony Point home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stony Point residents report their race to be White. Stony Point also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.84% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Stony Point include German, English, Irish, European, and Australian. The most common language spoken in Stony Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
