I worked for a number of years in an old steel mill located on a river. Never saw a mouse or a rat there the whole time.
But oh the raccoons! I usually took the night shift (pay differential). Those rascals would jump out of nowhere. Sometimes I think they did that just for their own amusement.
We live in the middle of the city...right next to a golf course. We have raccoons but so far they don’t bother us. See them in the back yard once in awhile. We’re having skunk problems. They were living under our ADA and I used skunk repellent and thought they had left. But I keep seeing them...and occasionally smelling them in our back and front yard. Need to get them to move on. lol