Rose Hills has higher household incomes than 89% of U.S. towns
7.7% of residents live below the poverty line, where California as a whole has 12.0%. For jobs and income Rose Hills is better than 88% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (B+). Hardly any stay in Rose Hills for work; outside it, Los Angeles is the main destination (20%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Rose Hills: the figures worth knowing
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Rose Hills
Job access by car is its strongest input (among the top U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rose Hills could be anywhere from B to A+.
How a workday changes Rose Hills
On a workday 1,309 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 85 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Rose Hills on a workday afternoon, 53% fewer than live here.
0.07 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Rose Hills: the destinations
Where Rose Hills clocks in
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Rose Hills
86 jobs are based in Rose Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rose Hills, 2013 → 2023: 116 → 86. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rose Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Rose Hills, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rose Hills workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 968 commuters (the 21% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Rose Hills works
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Rose Hills is a driving town
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,226 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 82% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.2% of Rose Hills households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Rose Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100, Rose Hills ranks 412th of 5,328 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Rolling Hills CA | 1,641 | $250K | 5.5% | 5.6% | 2% | A+ |
| 80 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 410 | Kasota Township MN | 1,621 | $120K | 2.3% | 2.6% | 3% | A |
| 411 | Penn Township PA | 2,307 | $97K | 4.2% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| 412 | Rose Hills CA | 2,314 | $123K | 7.7% | 3.8% | <1% | A |
| 413 | Wheeler AFB HI | 2,097 | $92K | 1.3% | 4.9% | 2% | A |
| 414 | Center Point IA | 2,572 | $95K | 5.1% | 1.0% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Rose Hills, the top three, the last and three more from California.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Rose Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Rose Hills?
$122,771 (±$12,137) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rose Hills?
7.7%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rose Hills?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rose Hills work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (20%, 21 mi), Anaheim (4%, 19 mi), Whittier (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rose Hills walkable?
Rose Hills is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 12.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rose Hills without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rose Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rose Hills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.