Rockfish vs Silver City

A side-by-side comparison of Rockfish and Silver City: population, income, housing, and more.

Rockfish and Silver City are places in North Carolina. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Rockfish has the higher population (3,807 vs 789 in Silver City). Rockfish has the higher median household income ($63,046 vs $16,466 in Silver City). Rockfish has the higher median home value ($191,000 vs $153,200 in Silver City).

Population, income & housing

	Rockfish	Silver City
Population	3,807	789
Median age	34.6 yrs	58.5 yrs
Median household income	$63,046	$16,466
Median home value	$191,000	$153,200
Median gross rent	$1,236	$958
Housing units	1,485	442
Homeownership rate	73.4%	54.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.0%	7.4%
Unemployment rate	6.6%	6.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Rockfish	Silver City
Population	3,523 → 3,807 (+8.1%)	949 → 789 (-16.9%)
Median household income	$63,796 → $63,046 (-1.2%)	$25,281 → $16,466 (-34.9%)
Median home value	$137,900 → $191,000 (+38.5%)	$87,000 → $153,200 (+76.1%)
Median gross rent	$1,158 → $1,236 (+6.7%)	$810 → $958 (+18.3%)

Rockfish

Population

3,5233,807

Median household income

$63,796$63,046

Median home value

$137,900$191,000

Median gross rent

$1,158$1,236

Silver City

Population

949789

Median household income

$25,281$16,466

Median home value

$87,000$153,200

Median gross rent

$810$958

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Rockfish	Silver City
Under 5	5.6%	4.2%
5 to 17	20.4%	16.9%
18 to 24	9.2%	3.3%
25 to 34	15.3%	8.9%
35 to 44	19.3%	7.9%
45 to 54	9.4%	4.1%
55 to 64	11.4%	40.2%
65 to 74	3.5%	9.6%
75 and over	5.9%	5.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Rockfish	Silver City
White (non-Hispanic)	56.3%	0.0%
Black or African American	16.7%	97.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	2.1%	0.0%
Asian	0.7%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	9.6%	2.2%
Hispanic or Latino	14.6%	0.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Rockfish	Silver City
No high school diploma	8.2%	30.7%
High school graduate	27.1%	43.7%
Some college or associate's	42.7%	18.3%
Bachelor's degree	14.8%	7.4%
Graduate or professional degree	7.2%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Rockfish	Silver City
Drove alone	76.4%	39.6%
Carpooled	5.7%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	52.7%
Walked	0.0%	3.5%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	18.0%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	4.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Rockfish	Silver City
1-unit, detached	93.7%	64.5%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.9%	2.3%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	5.4%	33.3%

Poverty & households

	Rockfish	Silver City
Poverty rate	15.7%	58.3%
Average household size	2.66	2.03
Mean commute (minutes)	34	20
Median year structure built	1995	1975