Rocky PointWA
Population 1,716: a town in Washington.
Is Rocky Point a good place to live?
The best of Rocky Point’s subject grades is an A− for health; the weakest is a D for hazard risk. Rocky Point's public schools trail 84% of Washington towns on state tests and graduation. On the outdoors, just 5 of Washington’s 397 towns do worse. Rocky Point has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Rocky Point stand out
Where Rocky Point beats most towns.
Rocky Point lives by the ocean
Coastal flooding makes up 10% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
How Rocky Point grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Washington), ordered by how far Rocky Point is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Space Needle and 140 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Rocky Point. Close and well known come first.
Big draw15 mi LookoutSpace Needle
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaClimate Pledge Arena
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaLumen Field
Big draw22 mi National ParkOlympic National Park3.6M visitors a year
16 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile Park
16 mi Ancient siteSeattle UndergroundPhoto credits
Space Needle: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Climate Pledge Arena: Sea Cow, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lumen Field: "Smart Destinations", GoSeattleCard.com, and Go Seattle Card Blog, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Olympic National Park: Wsiegmund, CC BY 2.5 · T-Mobile Park: MyName (Cacophony), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Seattle Underground: Mark Hursh, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Rocky Point: who provides what
Rocky Point is unincorporated, so Kitsap County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 30, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Rocky Point.
Rocky Point ranks healthier than 82% of the country’s towns
Rocky Point: 17% of adults binge drink, where Washington’s towns sit at 17% and U.S. towns at 16%. Against the Washington average, Rocky Point comes out ahead on 7 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 4. 7.2% of adults worry about having enough food locally.
| Rocky Point | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 25% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 71% | 79% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 7.2% | 10% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| What stands out | Rocky Point | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.2% | 10.2% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.1% | 8.4% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 15.3% | 9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Rocky Point has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from earthquakes
For Rocky Point, the FEMA risk score is 79 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 66% come from earthquakes and 20% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Rocky Point’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.0 jobs for each of them
Half the trips to work are shorter than 15 miles. Among residents in Rocky Point, 5.2% live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Bremerton (21%), Seattle (18%) and Silverdale (8%). The town’s mean commuting time is 28 minutes, close to Washington’s towns (27 minutes) and above U.S. towns (25 minutes).
| Rocky Point | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.2% | 7.9% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $86,000 | $98,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 12% | 15% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and pleasant summers in Rocky Point
Summer afternoons peak near 76° in July, and January nights bottom out around 36°; snowfall runs to about 3 inches a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer children than Washington overall
Children under 18 are 15% of residents (21% statewide). College graduates make up 34% of adults 25 and older, against 40% across Washington. For residents in Rocky Point, the share who are 65 or older is 17%.
| Rocky Point | Washington towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 15% | 22% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 34% | 30% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
43% women, 57% men
About 133 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±6.2 points). Across Washington, 49.6% of residents are women. Among residents 25 to 34, 78% are men (WA 52%).
| Rocky Point | WA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.7% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 6.8% | 9.9% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.8% | 8.5% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 20.6% | 15.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.8% | 14.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.6% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.4% | 12% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.8% | 10.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.6% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8.6% | 7.7% | 10.4% |
| High school | 21.2% | 21.6% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.4% | 21% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 15.8% | 10% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 23.1% | 24% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.8% | 15.6% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
The median home in Rocky Point sells for about $654K
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Rocky Point
Colleges nearby
6 within 15 miles of the center of Rocky Point
About 4 of every 100 Rocky Point residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Washington.
100% of working residents leave Rocky Point for work
Where Rocky Point’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Rocky Point
Census-designated place in Washington, United States
Rocky Point is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is a suburb of Bremerton, Washington.
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- Area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 20 ft
- Area code
- 360
Rocky Point’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Rocky Point.
| Town | WA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Point | — | — | C− | — | C− | A− |
| Bremerton | #213 | C− | C− | C− | B− | A− |
Rocky Point has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Rocky Point reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Rocky Point with a neighbor →
Questions about Rocky Point
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rocky Point, WA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $535,000, 9% below the Washington typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.