Old Pell City Historic District · Photo: Chris Pruitt · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Holtville works elsewhere
For jobs and income Holtville is better than 40% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (D). There are 578 jobs in Holtville, against 1,990 working residents. Only 3% work in Holtville; the top destination outside it is Montgomery (38%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Holtville: the figures worth knowing
38% of Holtville works in Montgomery
755 working residents, 38%, have their main job in Montgomery, 20 miles away. That’s 13 times as many as work in Holtville itself. The commute map ↓
Holtville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 26 across Alabama. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Holtville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Holtville went from 373 in 2014 to 578 in 2024, +55%. The jobs ↓
Holtville is a place people come home to
There are 578 jobs based in Holtville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Holtville has about 3,700 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Holtville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income holds Holtville’s grade up ($76,652, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Holtville could be anywhere from D to A−.
The places Holtville commutes to
Where Holtville clocks in
38% of workers
10% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
About 34 minutes each way for Holtville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holtville workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,015 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Alabama: 88% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What Holtville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holtville, 2014 → 2024: 373 → 578. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Holtville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Holtville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,924 residents head out to work, 66 work right here, and 512 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Holtville on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
How many miles Holtville commutes
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Holtville, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 1.7% across Alabama.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,158 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.5% of Holtville households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Holtville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Holtville next to U.S. towns of 3,600 to 7,000: 2,381st of 3,696 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Highland Lakes AL | 5,866 | $169K | 4.1% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 192 | Priceville AL | 3,952 | $117K | 2.2% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 229 | Argo AL | 4,376 | $105K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,379 | Wayne Township IN | 4,160 | $63K | 21.8% | 3.1% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,380 | Reading Township OH | 4,465 | $72K | 15.7% | 3.5% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,381 | Holtville AL | 5,158 | $77K | 13.0% | 4.9% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,382 | Sidney MT | 6,217 | $63K | 7.7% | 3.4% | 52% | C+ |
| 2,383 | Eastover NC | 3,743 | $85K | 13.4% | 6.9% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,696 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Holtville, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Holtville: questions
What is the median household income in Holtville?
$76,652 (±$17,223) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holtville?
13.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holtville?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holtville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montgomery (38%, 20 mi), Wetumpka (10%, 9 mi), Prattville (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Holtville walkable?
Holtville is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holtville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holtville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holtville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.