Most of Rosanky commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Rosanky is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns. Employers in Rosanky report 70 jobs, against 647 working residents. Rosanky grades C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Rosanky: the gist
Rosanky is a place people come home to
There are 70 jobs based in Rosanky, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rosanky has about 1,100 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Rosanky workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 42 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 322 hours of commuting, 115 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
29% of Rosanky works in Austin
187 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Austin, 36 miles away. That’s 15 times as many as work in Rosanky itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 647 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Rosanky earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Rosanky is better than 43% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Rosanky’s grade up ($107,946, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (31.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Rosanky’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Rosanky could be anywhere from D to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Rosanky
On a workday 635 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 58 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Rosanky on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting from Rosanky: about 42 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rosanky workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 592 commuters (the 17% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% 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.
29% of working residents work in Austin
Where Rosanky clocks in
29% 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 kinds of work in Rosanky
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rosanky, 2014 → 2024: 89 → 70. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rosanky’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Rosanky
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Rosanky is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rosanky is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Rosanky near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 714 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). 4.2% of Rosanky households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rosanky’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Rosanky is 2,607th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,605 | Sycamore Township OH | 1,441 | $64K | 5.4% | 7.7% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,606 | Nokomis WI | 1,425 | $91K | 8.4% | 1.1% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,607 | Rosanky TX | 1,695 | $108K | 31.3% | 1.5% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,608 | Oxford GA | 2,291 | $57K | 12.1% | 2.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,609 | Adrian MN | 1,219 | $73K | 7.7% | 1.3% | 14% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Rosanky, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Rosanky: questions
What is the median household income in Rosanky?
$107,946 (±$66,510) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rosanky?
31.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rosanky?
42 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rosanky work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (29%, 36 mi), Bastrop (9%, 11 mi), Smithville (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Rosanky walkable?
Rosanky is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rosanky without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rosanky, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rosanky
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.