RollingwoodCA
A town of 3,627.
What should you know before moving to Rollingwood?
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 95% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Overall it grades C, ranked 446th of 841 in California. Its lowest everyday mark is in schools: its public schools trail 64% of California towns on state tests and graduation. A typical home there costs about $600K, 4.4 years of the San Francisco metro’s $136K median household income. Rollingwood’s July high is 76°F, below both California’s towns (89°F) and U.S. towns (85°F). Among 847 California towns, just 5 have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Rollingwood. Rollingwood is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 74% of U.S. towns.
What makes Rollingwood stand out
Where Rollingwood beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
100% of working residents leave Rollingwood for work
Where Rollingwood’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Rollingwood grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Rollingwood is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and 197 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Rollingwood. Close and well known come first.
Big draw11 mi MuseumAlcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Big draw13 mi MuseumUSS Hornet
Big draw12 mi LandmarkLombard Street
Big draw14 mi Stadium & arenaChase Center
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaOracle Park
Big draw14 mi GardenPresidio of San FranciscoPhoto credits
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary: druchoy, CC BY-SA 2.0 · USS Hornet: kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0 · Lombard Street: The original uploader was Y6y6y6 at English Wikipedia., Public domain · Chase Center: Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oracle Park: User Coasttocoast on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Presidio of San Francisco: Robert Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Rollingwood: who provides what
Rollingwood is unincorporated, so Contra Costa 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 Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Rollingwood.
Rollingwood has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to San Francisco and beyond, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Rollingwood faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by earthquakes
One flood insurance claim has been paid in Rollingwood since 2016.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most working residents commute out of Rollingwood
Rollingwood has 35 jobs for its 1,078 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Rollingwood for work: only 0% work in town. The average trip to work in Rollingwood is 34 minutes. Since 2013, Rollingwood has lost 77 jobs, to 35 in 2023.
| Rollingwood | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $100,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Rollingwood, expect mild winters and pleasant summers
January nights average 42.3°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 75.6°.
Rollingwood has warm winters and cool summers. Rollingwood’s January low is 42°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Residents of Rollingwood are less healthy than 54% of U.S. towns
Against the 8,620 U.S. towns with household incomes like Rollingwood’s, it is less healthy than 78%, so it trails even them.
Rollingwood beats the California average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 68% of adults had a checkup this year in Rollingwood.
| Rollingwood | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 68% | 72% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 36% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 16% | 14% |
| What stands out | Rollingwood | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.1% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 17.5% | 20.8% |
| More uninsured adults | 16.8% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in Rollingwood sells for about $522K
75% of Rollingwood households own their home.
| Rollingwood | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,836 a month | $1,898 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 64% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Rollingwood
Colleges nearby
33 within 15 miles of the center of Rollingwood
About 6 of every 100 Rollingwood residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Rollingwood
Place in California, United States
Rollingwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Contra Costa County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, Rollingwood's population was 3,015.
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- Area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 75 ft
- Area code
- 925
Rollingwood’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Rollingwood.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rollingwood | #446 | C | C+ | — | C+ | B− |
| San Pablo | #616 | D | C | D | C+ | C |
| El Sobrante | #304 | C+ | C− | — | C+ | B+ |
Rollingwood and El Sobrante report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Rollingwood with a neighbor →
Questions about Rollingwood
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rollingwood, CA a good place to live?
Rollingwood grades C overall, better than 25% of U.S. towns and #446 of 841 in California. It grades B− for health and C+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Rollingwood, CA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $600,000, 21% below the California 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+.