Rockville is a medium-sized city located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 47,257 people and 19 constituent neighborhoods, Rockville is the 15th largest community in Maryland.

Rockville is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 89.99% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Rockville is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockville who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.16%), management occupations (11.92%), and sales jobs (9.88%).

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

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Rockville has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Of important note, Rockville is also a city of artists. Rockville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Rockville's character.

In addition, Rockville is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Rockville 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, Rockville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Rockville 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 Rockville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rockville, the average commute to work is 30.36 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Rockville Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Rockville, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Rockville is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 52.93% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Rockville in 2000 was $30,518, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,072 for a family of four. However, Rockville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rockville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rockville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rockville is White, followed by Asian. Rockville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.46% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Rockville include Irish, German, English, Russian, and Italian.

In addition, Rockville has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (30.99%).

The most common language spoken in Rockville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.