Castle Rock is a medium-sized town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 20,253 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Castle Rock is the 29th largest community in Colorado.

Castle Rock is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Castle Rock is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Castle Rock who work in sales jobs (17.21%), office and administrative support jobs (14.98%), and management occupations (12.49%).

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

Because of many things, Castle Rock 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, Castle Rock really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Castle Rock 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.

Residents of Castle Rock by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 96.8% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Castle Rock may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

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

Castle Rock Information and Demographics

The education level of Castle Rock citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 38.57% of adults in Castle Rock have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Castle Rock in 2000 was $26,760, which is wealthy relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,040 for a family of four. However, Castle Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Castle Rock is English. Some people also speak Spanish.