About Rocky Ridge

Rocky Ridge is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 1,089 people and just one neighborhood, Rocky Ridge is the 279th largest community in Maryland.

Rocky Ridge is a blue-collar town, with 35.2% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Rocky Ridge is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rocky Ridge who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.17%), management occupations (11.57%), and sales jobs (8.90%).

A relatively large number of people in Rocky Ridge telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.38% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Because of many things, Rocky Ridge 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, Rocky Ridge really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Rocky Ridge perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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.

One downside of living in Rocky Ridge is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rocky Ridge, the average commute to work is 33.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Rocky Ridge is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Rocky Ridge isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.61% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Rocky Ridge doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Rocky Ridge Information and Demographics

In Rocky Ridge, just 10.79% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Rocky Ridge in 2000 was $20,228, which is lower middle income relative to Maryland, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $80,912 for a family of four.

The people who call Rocky Ridge home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rocky Ridge is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rocky Ridge include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Rocky Ridge is English.