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%). 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. 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. Despite the fact that it is a small town, Rocky Point has quite a few people who take public transportation – mostly the train - for their daily commute to work. This helps to fill a real need in the town for affordable transportation.The population of Rocky Point has a very low overall level of education: only 6.94% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. 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.
