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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rocky Point, the average commute to work is 32.15 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the town, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative.
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.
The percentage of people in Rocky Point with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.71% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rocky Point in 2022 was $29,029, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,116 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 25.00% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rocky Point include Irish, English, Scots-Irish, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Rocky Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
