Households in Rose Hill have lower incomes than those in 89% of U.S. towns
6% of workers work from home (North Carolina 16%). Poverty touches 23.5% of residents (North Carolina 13.0%). For jobs and income Rose Hill is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Rose Hill stands out on work
Jobs in Rose Hill have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Rose Hill went from 353 in 2013 to 741 in 2023, +110%. The jobs ↓
Rose Hill is where the jobs are
Rose Hill has 741 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Rose Hill makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Rose Hill are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Rose Hill residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. 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 467 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Rose Hill gets the Jobs & income grade it does
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Rose Hill’s grade.
Unemployment (6.3%) is left out: Rose Hill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Rose Hill could be anywhere from D− to C−.
A place that makes things: 58% of Rose Hill’s jobs are in goods
741 jobs are based in Rose Hill.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rose Hill, 2013 → 2023: 353 → 741. 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 Rose Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Rose Hill
On a workday 427 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 701 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Rose Hill on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Rose Hill’s workers come from
Where Rose Hill clocks in
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.
From Rose Hill, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rose Hill workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 516 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across North Carolina: 85% 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.
How far it is to work from Rose Hill
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.
Driving is how Rose Hill gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.9% across North Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 552 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). 11.5% of Rose Hill households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rose Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Rose Hill compares with 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 267 | Northlakes NC | 1,716 | $101K | 2.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,358 | Gamerco NM | 1,176 | $49K | 52.0% | 0.0% | <1% | D− |
| 5,359 | Bismarck MO | 1,224 | $40K | 20.3% | 7.6% | 6% | D− |
| 5,360 | Rose Hill NC | 1,429 | $49K | 23.5% | 6.3% | 9% | D− |
| 5,361 | Bethesda OH | 1,179 | $36K | 21.8% | 2.8% | 2% | D− |
| 5,362 | Stinnett TX | 1,594 | $45K | 20.0% | 3.4% | 7% | 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 Rose Hill, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
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 Rose Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Rose Hill?
$49,375 (±$24,756) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rose Hill?
23.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rose Hill?
21 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rose Hill work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wallace (6%, 6 mi), Raleigh (4%, 78 mi), Kenansville (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rose Hill walkable?
Rose Hill is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rose Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rose Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rose Hill
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.