Rocky Hill is a somewhat small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 17,942 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Rocky Hill is the 62nd largest community in Connecticut.

Rocky Hill is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.68% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Rocky Hill is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rocky Hill who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.13%), sales jobs (10.63%), and management occupations (10.07%).

Also of interest is that Rocky Hill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Rocky Hill are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Rocky Hill is a very car-oriented town. This is because most people - 98.2% - drive by car to work every day, and few people choose alternative modes of transportation, such as public transit, cycling, or walking. In general, car-oriented communities have a layout that emphasizes streets, highways, and ease of parking, and sometimes this can be to the detriment of human-scale priorities such as walkability alongside roads, and public spaces. For example, strip malls are something you will find in Rocky Hill.

Rocky Hill is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Rocky Hill Information and Demographics

The education level of Rocky Hill citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 37.07% of adults in Rocky Hill have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rocky Hill in 2000 was $29,701, which is middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,804 for a family of four. However, Rocky Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Rocky Hill home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rocky Hill is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Rocky Hill include Italian, Irish, Polish, English, German, French, and French Canadian.

The languages spoken by people in Rocky Hill are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Rocky Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Spanish, and Polish.