Households in Holden Heights have lower incomes than those in 89% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 12.3%, against 12.6% across Florida. Holden Heights grades B for jobs and income and A for walkability. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 7.8 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 8.0 in Orlando.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Holden Heights, in brief
Holden Heights and Orlando trade workers both ways
Orlando is the top workplace for Holden Heights residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Holden Heights come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Holden Heights are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
Holden Heights makes and builds things
45% of the jobs based in Holden Heights are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Holden Heights residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 10%. The jobs ↓
Holden Heights has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Holden Heights went from 915 in 2014 to 1,403 in 2024, +53%. The jobs ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Holden Heights
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Holden Heights is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #265 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Holden Heights’ grade up (ahead of 93% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($48,750, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Holden Heights could be anywhere from C to A−.
32% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Holden Heights clocks in
32% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Holden Heights
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holden Heights workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,657 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% 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.
In Holden Heights, 45% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,403 jobs are based in Holden Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holden Heights, 2014 → 2024: 915 → 1,403. 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 Holden Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Holden Heights: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,720 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 1,385 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,000 people are in Holden Heights on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).
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 far it is to work from Holden Heights
About 21% 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.
Holden Heights is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Holden Heights is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns, #49 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Holden Heights near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,778 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 48% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 7.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 91% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 22.5% of Holden Heights households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 12% of Holden Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Holden Heights places 1,764th of 4,453 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,762 | Pulaski Township OH | 2,433 | $67K | 7.5% | 2.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,763 | Ryan Township PA | 2,550 | $91K | 8.9% | 3.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,764 | Holden Heights FL | 3,286 | $49K | 12.3% | 2.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,765 | Wilkshire Hills OH | 2,987 | $63K | 8.5% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| 1,766 | Basalt CO | 4,009 | $106K | 7.3% | 3.4% | 12% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | 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 Holden Heights, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
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 Holden Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Holden Heights?
$48,750 (±$17,802) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holden Heights?
12.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holden Heights?
20 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holden Heights work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (32%, 6 mi), Lake Buena Vista (4%, 12 mi), Tampa (2%, 76 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Holden Heights walkable?
Holden Heights is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.1 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holden Heights without a car?
12% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holden Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holden Heights
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.