Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Rose Hill has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
0% of workers work from home; Virginia has 18%. 63 jobs are based in Rose Hill for 182 working residents. Only 2% work in Rose Hill itself; outside it, Big Stone Gap draws the most (4%, 36 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Rose Hill for work, and who comes in
On a workday 178 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 59 people come in from elsewhere.
About 330 people are in Rose Hill on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Where Rose Hill goes to work
Where Rose Hill clocks in
4% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Rose Hill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rose Hill, 2013 → 2023: 156 → 63. 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 Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Rose Hill
of Rose Hill workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 61 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Virginia: 83% 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.
Rose Hill’s commute, mile by mile
About 34% 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.
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 Hill: questions
What is the poverty rate in Rose Hill?
39.8%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Rose Hill work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Big Stone Gap (4%, 36 mi), Middlesborough (4%, 20 mi), Jonesville (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Rose Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rose Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rose Hill
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.