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How Rosemead's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Rosemead?
Your $100,000 in Rosemead has the same purchasing power as $73,665 in the average US city. You'd need $26,335 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Rosemead's cost index of 136, sorted by closest match.
Rosemead has at least one strong card to play — you can walk to most of what you need. Here's the longer version.
With a citywide Walk Score of 61/100, Rosemead sits firmly in the walkable-by-US-standards camp. Pick a central neighborhood and most daily errands happen without keys in your hand.
Reasons are pulled from Rosemead's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
It's rare. Winters in Rosemead run about 50°F — cold-snap mornings happen, real snowfall doesn't, except maybe once a decade.
Not very. Average winter temperatures of about 50°F mean Rosemead skips the harsh-winter problem most of the country has. A handful of cold mornings, otherwise sweater weather at worst.
Warm without being brutal. Summer in Rosemead sits about 75°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Approximately USDA Hardiness Zone 10. That's the band gardeners use to pick plants — anything rated for Zone 10 or colder should survive a typical winter in Rosemead. (The estimate is derived from our winter-temperature data; the official USDA map uses station-level annual minimums and may differ by half a zone.)
Around 289 feet (88 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Rosemead's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Rosemead comes in around 3,360 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
Significantly. Rosemead's index of 136 puts it in the top tier of US cities for cost of living — roughly 36% above the national baseline. The pattern is familiar: housing eats a large share of incomes, and people earning median-equivalent jobs from cheaper metros feel the difference fast.
In parts, yes. With a citywide Walk Score of 61/100, Rosemead has genuinely walkable neighborhoods alongside more sprawled stretches. Transit Score is 43 out of 100. If walkability matters to you, the neighborhood choice will matter more than the city-level number.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $95,025 to live in Rosemead the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Rosemead runs about $1,660/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.