About Rockville

Rockville is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,774 people and just one neighborhood, Rockville is the 219th largest community in Virginia.

Unlike some towns , Rockville isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rockville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rockville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rockville who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.99%), management occupations (10.90%), and sales jobs (8.60%).

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.

Rockville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Rockville 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. 98.12% 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.

Rockville 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.

Rockville Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Rockville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.51% of adults in Rockville have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Rockville in 2000 was $27,742, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,968 for a family of four. However, Rockville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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 African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rockville include English, German, Irish, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and Italian.

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