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How Rowland Heights's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Rowland Heights?
Your $100,000 in Rowland Heights has the same purchasing power as $73,330 in the average US city. You'd need $26,670 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 Rowland Heights's cost index of 136, sorted by closest match.
So why do people move to Rowland Heights? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly paychecks come in above the us average and lower-than-average crime numbers. The detail on each one is below.
The typical household in Rowland Heights pulls in $85,842 — comfortably above the US median. Combined with the cost of living here, the income-to-expense ratio works out better than a quick look at either number in isolation would suggest.
Reported crime in Rowland Heights comes in around 2,396 per 100,000 — under the national baseline of about 3,500. Worth digging into specific neighborhoods before settling on one, but the city-level picture is on the safer side.
Reasons are pulled from Rowland Heights'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.
Not really a snow town. With winters averaging 37°F, Rowland Heights sits in the mild-cold band where snowflakes appear occasionally and everything melts within a day. Most years see one storm worth talking about.
Cool, not cold. Winters in Rowland Heights sit around 37°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Rowland Heights's summer averages around 103°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
Approximately USDA Hardiness Zone 9. That's the band gardeners use to pick plants — anything rated for Zone 9 or colder should survive a typical winter in Rowland Heights. (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.)
Roughly 679 feet (207 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Rowland Heights comes in around 2,396 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. Rowland Heights'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.
Rowland Heights's Walk Score is 6/100, firmly in the car-required tier. The layout assumes you'll drive to the grocery store, drive to work, drive everywhere.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $95,459 to live in Rowland Heights 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 Rowland Heights runs about $1,868/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.