Rugby is a very small city located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,481 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rugby is the 30th largest community in North Dakota.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.56% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.39 minutes getting to work every day.

Being a small city, Rugby does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

In terms of college education, Rugby is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.05% of adults in Rugby have a college degree.

The per capita income in Rugby in 2022 was $35,899, which is middle income relative to North Dakota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,596 for a family of four. However, Rugby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Rugby home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rugby residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Rugby include German, Norwegian, Irish, Russian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Rugby is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Polish.