Rolling Hills Estates is a somewhat small city located in the state of California. With a population of 7,669 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Rolling Hills Estates is the 466th largest community in California.

Rolling Hills Estates is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 91.87% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Rolling Hills Estates is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rolling Hills Estates who work in management occupations (24.86%), sales jobs (11.46%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.36%).

Of important note, Rolling Hills Estates is also a city of artists. Rolling Hills Estates has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Rolling Hills Estates's character.

Also of interest is that Rolling Hills Estates has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Rolling Hills Estates telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.27% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In addition, Rolling Hills Estates is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Rolling Hills Estates is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Rolling Hills Estates really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Rolling Hills Estates perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Rolling Hills Estates is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rolling Hills Estates, the average commute to work is 31.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Rolling Hills Estates is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Rolling Hills Estates isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.23% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small city, Rolling Hills Estates does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Rolling Hills Estates Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Rolling Hills Estates is a pretty powerful place. 60.75% of the adults in Rolling Hills Estates have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Rolling Hills Estates in 2000 was $51,849, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $207,396 for a family of four. However, Rolling Hills Estates contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rolling Hills Estates is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rolling Hills Estates home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rolling Hills Estates is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Rolling Hills Estates include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Russian.

Rolling Hills Estates also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 19.01%.

The languages spoken by people in Rolling Hills Estates are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Rolling Hills Estates is English. Other important languages spoken here include Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean.