Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHousehold incomes in Roseville trail those of 93% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Roseville D; getting around on foot earns it C+. 13.5% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.3% across Ohio. For 2% of workers, the job is at home; Ohio has 13%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Roseville: the gist
Roseville and Zanesville trade workers both ways
Zanesville is the top workplace for Roseville residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Roseville come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Roseville is a place people come home to
There are 189 jobs based in Roseville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Roseville has about 1,300 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Roseville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 23 across Ohio. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 690 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Roseville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Roseville is better than 12% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Roseville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($44,792, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Roseville’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, Roseville could be anywhere from D to C−.
18% of working residents work in Zanesville
Where Roseville clocks in
18% of workers
9% 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 daily flow of workers through Roseville
On a workday 677 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 176 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Roseville on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.27 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Roseville’s commute takes about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roseville workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 743 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% 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.
What the 189 jobs in Roseville are
189 jobs are based in Roseville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roseville, 2013 → 2023: 184 → 189. 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 Roseville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Roseville, by distance
About 23% 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.
For most of Roseville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Roseville is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 758 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). 8.7% of Roseville households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Roseville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Roseville next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400: 4,882nd of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,880 | Speaker Township MI | 1,330 | $54K | 11.1% | 12.2% | 2% | D |
| 4,881 | Lisbon ND | 2,184 | $64K | 15.4% | 3.5% | 34% | D |
| 4,882 | Roseville OH | 1,751 | $45K | 13.5% | 2.7% | 2% | D |
| 4,883 | Princeton WI | 1,249 | $54K | 16.8% | 5.5% | 5% | D |
| 4,884 | Rushville Township IL | 2,344 | $54K | 15.0% | 5.6% | 21% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Roseville, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
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 Roseville: questions
What is the median household income in Roseville?
$44,792 (±$10,926) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Roseville?
13.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roseville?
35 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roseville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Zanesville (18%, 11 mi), Columbus (9%, 50 mi), Crooksville (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Roseville walkable?
Roseville is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Roseville without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roseville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roseville
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.