Rowland Heights is an unincorporated Place in and below the Puente Hills in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 48,231 at the 2020 census. Rowland Heights is in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and represented by the County of Los Angeles (County Board of Supervisors) and is the largest census designated place in Los Angeles County by area and the county’s fourth largest CDP by population. The area has a high Taiwanese population and was known as “Little Taipei” in the 1980s and 1990s, when it axiom an influx of rich immigrants from Taiwan.

A number of corporations, such as Newegg, FedEx, DIRECTV, and Fashion Nova, as with ease as additional technology and import and export businesses, are located in adjacent to City of Industry. Many event owners and employees reside in Rowland Heights as with ease as adjoining Hacienda Heights and Walnut due to their proximity.

Spering’s Best Places ranks Rowland Heights at #2 in “Most Comfortable Summer Cities”, drawing its conclusion from income levels, housing prices, the school-district, and overall environment, as competently as from the 2010 census.

The Mexican land allow Rancho La Puente was contracted by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to John Rowland in April 1842, totaling approximately 18,000 acres (7,284 ha). Three years later, Governor Pio Pico amended the grant, enlarging it to approximately 49,000 acres (19,830 ha) and calculation William Workman as a co-owner. In 1868, after they time-honored their federal land patent the prior year, Rowland and Workman estranged Rancho La Puente, with Workman largely taking the western and central portions and Rowland the northern, southern and eastern sections, including what became most of Rowland Heights. The east section of Rowland Heights, between Nogales Street and Brea Canyon Road, falls within Rancho Rincon de la Brea. The ranch of Rowland’s grandson, John A. Rowland III was astern the 99 Ranch Market near the corner of Gale Avenue and Nogales Street and the Rowland associates owns share of that property today, leasing most of it for public notice use. A translation mistake briefly led to the city instinctive known as “Robert’s Hat” in outsider sources.