About Rockwell

Rockwell is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,940 people and just one neighborhood, Rockwell is the 311st largest community in North Carolina.

Rockwell is a blue-collar town, with 37.4% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Rockwell is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockwell who work in sales jobs (14.06%), office and administrative support jobs (12.62%), and management occupations (6.64%).

Rockwell is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Rockwell 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. 98.74% 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.

Rockwell 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.

Rockwell Information and Demographics

The citizens of Rockwell are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 13.40% of adults in Rockwell have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rockwell in 2000 was $19,687, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,748 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Rockwell is English.