Photo: Valfontis · Public domainMost of Rose Lodge commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 6% of workers, against 19% across Oregon. Employers in Rose Lodge report 122 jobs; 766 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Rose Lodge is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (D−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Rose Lodge and work: the main findings
Rose Lodge is a place people come home to
There are 122 jobs based in Rose Lodge, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rose Lodge has about 740 people in it, 47% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Rose Lodge and Lincoln City trade workers both ways
Lincoln City is the top workplace for Rose Lodge residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Rose Lodge come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 766 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Rose Lodge’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Household income holds Rose Lodge’s grade up ($59,038, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Rose Lodge’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 Lodge could be anywhere from D− to C+.
The daily flow of workers through Rose Lodge
On a workday 746 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 102 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Rose Lodge on a workday afternoon, 47% 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.
35% of working residents work in Lincoln City
Where Rose Lodge clocks in
35% 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.
Miles to work from Rose Lodge
About 33% 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.
Rose Lodge makes things: 45% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rose Lodge, 2013 → 2023: 55 → 122. 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 Lodge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Rose Lodge takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rose Lodge workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 528 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Oregon: 80% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Driving is how Rose Lodge gets around
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 563 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 4.6% of Rose Lodge households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rose Lodge’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rose Lodge and other 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 204 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,411 | Tuscarora Township PA | 1,135 | $52K | 18.2% | 1.0% | 3% | D− |
| 5,412 | Foscoe NC | 1,226 | $49K | 22.3% | 8.3% | 6% | D− |
| 5,413 | Rose Lodge OR | 1,381 | $59K | 23.6% | 0.0% | 3% | D− |
| 5,414 | Omega GA | 1,341 | $42K | 34.1% | 2.6% | 7% | D− |
| 5,415 | Osburn ID | 1,673 | $51K | 18.5% | 2.2% | 16% | 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 Lodge, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
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 Lodge: questions
What is the median household income in Rose Lodge?
$59,038 (±$14,544) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rose Lodge?
23.6%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rose Lodge?
28 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rose Lodge work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lincoln City (35%, 6 mi), Portland (8%, 70 mi), Newport (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rose Lodge walkable?
Rose Lodge is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rose Lodge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rose Lodge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rose Lodge
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.