Photo: UncleVinny · CC BY 3.0Roseville has higher household incomes than 88% of U.S. towns
About one in five work in Roseville itself; outside it, Sacramento draws the most (15%, 16 miles). Below the poverty line: 5.9% of residents, where California as a whole has 12.0%. Roseville grades A− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Roseville
How Roseville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Roseville is better than 79% of U.S. towns, #180 of 847 in California. Household income holds Roseville’s grade up ($119,288, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Roseville could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
66% of the jobs in Roseville pay over $3,333 a month
86,912 jobs are based in Roseville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roseville, 2013 → 2023: 62,138 → 86,912. 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 Roseville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Roseville fills up on a workday
On a workday 49,537 residents head out to work, 13,932 work right here, and 72,980 people come in from elsewhere.
About 191,000 people are in Roseville on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.37 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Roseville’s residents
Where Roseville clocks in
15% of workers
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 trip to work from Roseville: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roseville workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 57,278 commuters (the 24% 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.
Miles to work from Roseville
About 24% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
Driving is how Roseville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Roseville is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns, #501 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% 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 75,087 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 60% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 5% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 80% 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). 5.7% of Roseville households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Roseville’s commuters take a bus or train.
These are town averages; neighborhoods differ.
31st of 185: where Roseville ranks among U.S. towns of 117,000 to 226,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pearland TX | 129,930 | $119K | 4.1% | 3.3% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Berkeley CA | 121,911 | $108K | 17.3% | 5.6% | 21% | A |
| 3 | Olathe KS | 150,025 | $114K | 5.6% | 2.7% | 26% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Sunnyvale CA | 156,577 | $186K | 5.8% | 4.5% | 14% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Santa Clara CA | 133,446 | $179K | 8.4% | 5.1% | 14% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Thornton CO | 147,766 | $103K | 7.0% | 4.5% | 10% | A− |
| 30 | Tempe AZ | 190,571 | $80K | 15.8% | 5.5% | 25% | A− |
| 31 | Roseville CA | 167,302 | $119K | 5.9% | 5.2% | 22% | A− |
| 32 | Orange CA | 138,365 | $117K | 9.5% | 4.9% | 13% | A− |
| 33 | Fort Collins CO | 171,500 | $85K | 15.8% | 5.4% | 47% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 185 | Macon-Bibb County GA | 157,556 | $51K | 24.7% | 8.1% | 53% | 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 Roseville, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Roseville and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Rocklin (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Roseville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roseville | – | A− | B+ | 27 min | $119,288 |
| Rocklin | 4% | A− | A− | 26 min | $124,168 |
| Granite Bay | under 2% | A | B+ | 25 min | $184,606 |
| Citrus Heights | 2% | B | A | 28 min | $82,314 |
| Antelope | under 2% | B | A− | 29 min | $99,067 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Roseville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Roseville: questions
What is the median household income in Roseville?
$119,288 (±$3,284) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Roseville?
5.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roseville?
27 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roseville work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (15%, 16 mi), Rocklin (4%, 4 mi), Rancho Cordova (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Roseville walkable?
Roseville is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 11.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Roseville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 5% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roseville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roseville
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.