Rosewood HeightsIL
With 4,229 residents, it is a town in Illinois.
Is Rosewood Heights a good place to live?
Taken together, its subjects give Rosewood Heights an A overall, better than 91% of U.S. towns. In the ranking it comes 111th of 767 in Illinois. Its strongest is cost of living: a typical home costs about $180K, 2.2 years of the St. Louis metro’s $80K median household income. The drawback is hazard risk (C): FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than three fifths of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Only 10 of the 768 Illinois towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Rosewood Heights. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for schools, B− for health and B for walkability.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · schools, state test and graduation results · health, CDC PLACES · Census LEHD, 2023.
What makes Rosewood Heights stand out
Where Rosewood Heights beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Rosewood Heights for work
Where Rosewood Heights’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Rosewood Heights grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Rosewood Heights is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Cahokia and 52 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Rosewood Heights. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi State parkCahokia
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaThe Dome at America's Center
7 mi Ancient sitePiasa
19 mi Stadium & arenaBusch Stadium
19 mi National ParkGateway Arch National Park2.2M visitors a year
16 mi LandmarkMonks MoundPhoto credits
Cahokia: Thank You (24 Millions ) views, CC BY 2.0 · The Dome at America's Center: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0 · Piasa: Burfalcy, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Busch Stadium: Lee Ann Ratledge, CC BY 4.0 · Gateway Arch National Park: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Monks Mound: Skubasteve834, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Rosewood Heights: who provides what
Rosewood Heights is unincorporated, so Madison 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 Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Rosewood Heights.
Rosewood Heights pairs an A overall with homes cheaper than the Illinois norm and sends many workers across the state line to St. Louis.
Rosewood Heights stands out in Illinois and nationally: a larger share of its households live in a home they own
Rosewood Heights grades A overall with a typical home of about $180K, below the Illinois typical value; only 48 of the 183 Illinois towns graded A− or better can say that. The median property tax bill is $2,023, against $5,298 across Illinois, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Home values are up 7.4% over the year to September 2026.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Most of Rosewood Heights’ workers leave town for work
29% of working residents cross a state line to work, St. Louis among the top destinations. Rosewood Heights has 201 jobs for its 1,690 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Rosewood Heights’ average trip to work stands at 28 minutes, above both the Illinois town median (26 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Only 1% of working residents stay in Rosewood Heights for work; the rest commute out. The share of residents in Rosewood Heights who live below the poverty line: 6.8%. For half of commuters, work is under 12 miles away.
| Rosewood Heights | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.6% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 6.8% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $72,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The climate in Rosewood Heights brings four seasons and pleasant summers
Rosewood Heights’ typical July afternoon high stands at 88°F, against 84°F in Illinois’ towns and 85°F across U.S. towns.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Rosewood Heights has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Of the losses FEMA expects in Rosewood Heights, 31% come from inland flooding and 26% from earthquakes. The national flood insurance program has paid 36 claims here since 1978.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On CDC estimates, Rosewood Heights is healthier than 54% of U.S. towns
Just over a third of Rosewood Heights adults sleep under 7 hours. The town beats the Illinois average on 7 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 5.
| Rosewood Heights | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 35% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 13% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 35% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 37% | 35% |
| What stands out | Rosewood Heights | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.2% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.5% | 15.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.1% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Protected land: 2% of Rosewood Heights
Rosewood Heights has one park or preserve, 13 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Veterans of Foreign Wars Park | — | 13 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Rosewood Heights
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Rosewood Heights
About 5 of every 100 Rosewood Heights residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Rosewood Heights
Census-designated place in Illinois, United States
Rosewood Heights is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,971 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Metro East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area.
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- Area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 528 ft
- Area code
- 618
Rosewood Heights’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Rosewood Heights.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Bethalto (A−) comes closest.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosewood Heights | #111 | A | A+ | — | B | B− |
| East Alton | #535 | C+ | A− | C | B | C− |
| Wood River | #495 | B− | A | C | C | B− |
| Bethalto | #195 | A− | A− | B+ | B+ | B |
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Questions about Rosewood Heights
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rosewood Heights, IL a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Rosewood Heights grades A overall, better than 91% of U.S. towns and #111 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B− for health and B for schools.
Is Rosewood Heights, IL expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.