Rowland HeightsCA
It is a town of 45,911 residents in California.
Is Rowland Heights a good place to live?
Rowland Heights’s grades pull in different directions. Where it falls short is cost of living (D−): the typical home is worth about $972K, 10.1 years of the Los Angeles metro’s $96K median household income. Walkability is its strong suit (A): it is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns. Add health to its strengths: residents are healthier than 67% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Overall, that makes a C+, good for 306th of 841 in California. Nationally, it does better than 38% of U.S. towns. It also trails on hazard risk: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 88% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Peter F Schabarum Regional County Park, at 345 acres with 6.3 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenStreetMap.
What makes Rowland Heights stand out
Where Rowland Heights beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
93% of working residents leave Rowland Heights for work
Where Rowland Heights’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Rowland Heights grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Rowland Heights is from typical.
Its grades run from A for walkability (better than 87% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 1%), so the C+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Disneyland and 245 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Rowland Heights. Close and well known come first.
Big draw11 mi Theme parkDisneyland17.3M visitors a year
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaSoFi Stadium
Big draw28 mi LandmarkHollywood Walk of Fame10.0M visitors a year
Big draw11 mi Theme parkKnott's Berry Farm4.5M visitors a year
Big draw23 mi MuseumLucas Museum of Narrative Art
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaLos Angeles Memorial ColiseumPhoto credits
Disneyland: HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0 · SoFi Stadium: Thank You (21 Millions+) views, CC BY 2.0 · Hollywood Walk of Fame: BenSherman, Public domain · Knott's Berry Farm: Phydend at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Kriddl, CC0 · Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: CanonStarGal, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Moving to Rowland Heights: who provides what
Rowland Heights is unincorporated, so Los Angeles 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 Rowland Heights.
Rowland Heights has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of California.
Natural hazards: very high risk in Rowland Heights, mostly earthquakes
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Rowland Heights after 5 declared disasters, most recently in 2025. 55% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from earthquakes, followed by inland flooding at 43%. This California town has had 2 paid flood insurance claims since 1980.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Rowland Heights’ public schools outperform 65% of California districts
Public schools: the Rowland Unified school district. Of its 19 schools, two are listed below, each with the reason.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blandford ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 643 | – |
| John A. Rowland HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 2,016 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
In Rowland Heights, 5.8% of the land is conserved
Across 7 parks and preserves: 14 miles of trail. The concentration of trails for Rowland Heights comes to 1.1 miles per square mile, above both California’s towns (1.0) and U.S. towns (0.4). Parks and preserves locally: 7, covering 445 acres.
| Rowland Heights | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 1.1 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.8% | 4.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Peter F Schabarum Regional County Park | 6.3 mi | 345 |
| 2. Trailview Park | 0.8 mi | 56 |
| 3. Pathfinder Community Regional Park | 0.8 mi | 12 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most of Rowland Heights’ workers commute out: the town has 0.5 jobs for each of them
Just over a tenth of Rowland Heights residents live below the poverty line, above both the California town median (10%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). Only 7% of working residents stay in Rowland Heights for work; the rest commute out. Employers in Rowland Heights added 1,661 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 9,025. Rowland Heights’ typical journey to work stands at 33 minutes.
| Rowland Heights | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 14% | 14% | 11% |
| Median household income | $86,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
For cost of living, Rowland Heights earns a D−
At 10.1 years of the Los Angeles metro’s $96K median household income, the typical home (about $972K) costs more against local pay than in 78% of California towns; that ratio is one input to that grade.
In Rowland Heights, the median rent is $1,967 a month. The typical home value in the town is about $972,000, up 0.8% in a year, 28% above the California typical home. On the market locally: a median 58 days to sell.
| Rowland Heights | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,967 a month | $1,895 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 68% | 64% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Compared with most of California and the rest of the country, fewer of Rowland Heights’ adults binge drink
A tenth of Rowland Heights adults smoke cigarettes. Against the California average, Rowland Heights comes out ahead on 15 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 6. Among 847 California towns, just 6 have a lower share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Rowland Heights.
| Rowland Heights | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 29% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 16% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 22% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 36% | 33% |
| What stands out | Rowland Heights | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with obesity | 18.8% | 27.8% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 5.1% | 7.3% |
| More adults with diabetes | 14.4% | 11.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The climate in Rowland Heights brings mild winters and hot summers
January nights average 46.3°, milder than in 97% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 87.8°.
Rowland Heights’ January low comes in at 46°F. Snow is a rarity.
| Rowland Heights | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 46°F | 40°F | 22°F |
| July high | 88°F | 89°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Rowland Heights is older than the California average
The midpoint age in Rowland Heights is 46.9 years. People 65 and older are 23% of residents (16% statewide); children under 18 are 17% of residents (22% statewide). The share of adults 25 and older in Rowland Heights who hold a bachelor’s degree or more: 36%.
| Rowland Heights | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 46.9 years | 39 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 17% | 22% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 23% | 16% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 29% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.5 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women. Median age: women 48.0, men 45.3.
| Rowland Heights | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.7% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.2% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 12.7% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.8% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 14.5% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.6% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.4% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 14.8% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 24.7% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 16% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.5% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.6% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.5% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Everything we know about Rowland Heights
Colleges nearby
45 within 15 miles of the center of Rowland Heights
About 8 of every 100 Rowland Heights residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
Rowland Heights’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Rowland Heights.
All 4 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its C+; Brea (B−) is closest.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rowland Heights | #306 | C+ | D− | — | B+ | B+ |
| Industry | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diamond Bar | #224 | B− | D− | C+ | B+ | A |
| Brea | #227 | B− | D− | C− | A− | A |
| Hacienda Heights | #216 | B− | D− | — | B+ | B+ |
| La Habra Heights | #41 | A− | C− | B | A− | A |
Rowland Heights and Hacienda Heights report no FBI crime data of their own. Industry isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Rowland Heights with a neighbor →
Questions about Rowland Heights
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rowland Heights, CA a good place to live?
Rowland Heights grades C+ overall, better than 38% of U.S. towns and #306 of 841 in California. It grades B+ for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Rowland Heights, CA expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.