A job hub: Roseland has 2.5 jobs per working resident, and 1,336 people come in to work
2% of workers work from home, where Florida as a whole has 16%. Roseland has 1,352 jobs, and 532 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Roseland are B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Roseland, in brief
Roseland is where the jobs are
Roseland has 1,352 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Roseland workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 532 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Roseland’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Roseland is better than 46% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Roseland’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($63,929, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Roseland’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Roseland could be anywhere from D to A−.
Who works in Roseland, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 516 residents head out to work and 16 work right here.
About 3,000 people are in Roseland on a workday afternoon, 38% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far Roseland goes to work
About 34% 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.
Commuting from Roseland: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roseland workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,036 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where Roseland’s workforce comes from
Where Roseland clocks in
12% of workers
11% 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 kinds of work in Roseland
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roseland, 2013 → 2023: 1,048 → 1,352. 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 Roseland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Roseland start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Roseland is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,057 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Roseland households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Roseland’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Roseland is 2,513th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,511 | Bruce Township MI | 2,024 | $86K | 5.7% | 4.6% | 2% | B− |
| 2,512 | Paris Township OH | 1,661 | $80K | 13.2% | 2.2% | 1% | B− |
| 2,513 | Roseland FL | 2,142 | $64K | 7.2% | 0.0% | 3% | B− |
| 2,514 | Dora AL | 2,223 | $62K | 18.3% | 2.3% | 3% | B− |
| 2,515 | Mount Airy GA | 1,510 | $88K | 14.1% | 1.5% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 Roseland, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
12% of Roseland works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Sebastian. Darker towns draw more of Roseland’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 Roseland: questions
What is the median household income in Roseland?
$63,929 (±$33,284) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Roseland?
7.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roseland?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roseland work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sebastian (12%, 4 mi), Vero Beach (11%, 14 mi), Melbourne (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Roseland walkable?
Roseland is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Roseland without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roseland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roseland
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.