Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0Rosedale ranks among the lowest-earning U.S. towns by household income
Rosedale grades D− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. Below the poverty line: 57.5% of residents, where Mississippi as a whole has 18.9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Rosedale apart on work
The jobs in Rosedale pay better than its residents’ jobs
68% of the jobs based in Rosedale pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 34% of the jobs Rosedale residents hold. 92% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Rosedale. The jobs ↓
Rosedale and Cleveland trade workers both ways
Cleveland is the top workplace for Rosedale residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Rosedale come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
54% of the jobs in Rosedale are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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 426 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Rosedale’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Rosedale is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Rosedale’s grade.
Unemployment (22.3%) is left out: Rosedale’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Rosedale stays D−.
68% of the jobs in Rosedale pay over $3,333 a month
636 jobs are based in Rosedale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rosedale, 2013 → 2023: 620 → 636. 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 Rosedale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
19% of working residents work in Cleveland
Where Rosedale clocks in
19% of workers
7% 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.
Who commutes out of Rosedale, and who commutes in
On a workday 377 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 587 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Rosedale on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 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 trip to work from Rosedale: about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rosedale workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 379 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% 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.
Miles to work from Rosedale
About 32% 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.
Getting around Rosedale: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rosedale is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 1.8% across Mississippi, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 379 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). 14.1% of Rosedale households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rosedale’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rosedale next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,933 | Arnold Line MS | 1,859 | $54K | 16.0% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,001 | Columbus AFB MS | 1,293 | $70K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,293 | Hurley MS | 1,305 | $133K | 12.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,816 | Eudora AR | 1,511 | $29K | 28.1% | 8.5% | 37% | D− |
| 5,817 | Cumberland KY | 1,761 | $35K | 52.9% | 30.1% | 10% | D− |
| 5,818 | Rosedale MS | 1,423 | $19K | 57.5% | 22.3% | 12% | D− |
| 5,819 | Columbus NM | 1,484 | $26K | 22.7% | 6.3% | 4% | D− |
| 5,820 | Sneedville TN | 1,349 | $25K | 48.4% | 14.2% | 23% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Rosedale, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
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 Rosedale: questions
What is the median household income in Rosedale?
$18,696 (±$4,514) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rosedale?
57.5%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rosedale?
15 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rosedale work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cleveland (19%, 20 mi), Greenville (7%, 33 mi), Mound Bayou (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rosedale walkable?
Rosedale is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rosedale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rosedale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rosedale
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.