In Rödåsel there is a primary school, gas station, community center, antique shop, joinery, a number of small businesses and several farms.

The village also has a jogging and cross-country skiing track with electric lights which starts near the gas station.

[2] Before 1910, Ytterrödå was first and foremost a forestry and agricultural village containing a handful of small farms.

1921 the name of the village was changed to Rödåsel when Ytterrödå got its own post office in Dalarna, and three years later Jenny and Otto Lindberg established their business in the same area.

1927 opened a cooperative grocery shop in "Dalarna," opposite Otto Lindberg's business.