Household incomes in Rosebud trail those of 93% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Rosebud D; getting around on foot earns it C+. Below the poverty line: 17.0% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. 6% of workers work from home; Texas has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Rosebud apart on work
A big share show a job far from home
43% 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 ↓
Rosebud’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Rosebud is Temple, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (78) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Rosebud is a place people come home to
There are 153 jobs based in Rosebud, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rosebud has about 960 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 534 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Rosebud earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Rosebud is better than 12% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Rosebud’s grade up (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($45,057, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Rosebud’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, Rosebud could be anywhere from D to C+.
Miles to work from Rosebud
About 43% 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.
How a workday changes Rosebud
On a workday 509 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 128 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Rosebud on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
0.29 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.
15% of working residents work in Temple
Where Rosebud 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.
Jobs in Rosebud: what the 153 are
153 jobs are based in Rosebud.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rosebud, 2013 → 2023: 163 → 153. 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 Rosebud’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rosebud workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 329 commuters (the 6% 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.
Most trips from Rosebud start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rosebud is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 349 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). 6.6% of Rosebud households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rosebud’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Rosebud comes 4,313th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 30 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,311 | Zebulon GA | 1,358 | $50K | 24.3% | 11.0% | 7% | D |
| 4,312 | Granite OK | 1,609 | $60K | 12.7% | 5.0% | 12% | D |
| 4,313 | Rosebud TX | 1,344 | $45K | 17.0% | 0.0% | 5% | D |
| 4,314 | Buchanan VA | 1,212 | $54K | 17.9% | 6.6% | 2% | D |
| 4,315 | Patoka Township IN | 1,599 | $60K | 13.5% | 0.0% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Rosebud, 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 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 Rosebud: questions
What is the median household income in Rosebud?
$45,057 (±$24,122) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rosebud?
17.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rosebud?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rosebud work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Temple (15%, 25 mi), Waco (8%, 36 mi), Dallas (5%, 119 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rosebud walkable?
Rosebud is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rosebud without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rosebud, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rosebud
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.