With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Rose works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers (New York 15%). 410 jobs are based in Rose, and 853 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Rose are C 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
The commute and the jobs: Rose in brief
The figures behind Rose’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Rose is better than 32% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Rose’s grade up (8.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rose could be anywhere from D to B+.
How long Rose spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rose workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 885 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The daily flow of workers through Rose
On a workday 808 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 365 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Rose on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer 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.
8% of working residents work in Huron
Where Rose clocks in
Lines 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 Rose
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rose, 2013 → 2023: 436 → 410. 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’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Rose to work
About 15% 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.
The commute in Rose is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rose is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 935 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.9% of Rose households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Rose’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100, Rose ranks 3,330th of 5,328 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,328 | Oakhurst OK | 2,175 | $57K | 18.9% | 5.8% | 2% | C |
| 3,329 | Farmington Township IL | 3,094 | $69K | 9.1% | 9.0% | 14% | C |
| 3,330 | Rose NY | 2,260 | $76K | 8.1% | 6.9% | 5% | C |
| 3,331 | Clifton Springs NY | 2,170 | $65K | 17.9% | 3.0% | 10% | C |
| 3,332 | Rugby ND | 2,412 | $50K | 13.0% | 0.5% | 45% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Rose, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 16% of Rose’s workers
The biggest share goes to Huron (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Rose’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 Rose: questions
What is the median household income in Rose?
$76,200 (±$11,441) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rose?
8.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rose?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rose work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Huron (8%, 6 mi), Arcadia (5%, 10 mi), Butler (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rose walkable?
Rose is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rose without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rose, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rose
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.