With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Holden Lakes works elsewhere
Employers in Holden Lakes report 919 jobs, and 1,870 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Holden Lakes B; getting around on foot earns it A. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 7.8 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 31.0 in Miami.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Holden Lakes apart on work
Holden Lakes’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Holden Lakes is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #224 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Holden Lakes’ grade up (ahead of 93% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($70,809, 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 Lakes could be anywhere from C to A.
32% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Holden Lakes 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.
How many people are in Holden Lakes by day
On a workday 1,858 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 907 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Holden Lakes 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 2023, primary jobs.
What Holden Lakes’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holden Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 786 → 919. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Holden Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Holden Lakes: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holden Lakes workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,476 commuters (the 17% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Holden Lakes
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Holden Lakes, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Holden Lakes is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns, #118 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Holden Lakes 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 1,785 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). 7.3% of Holden Lakes households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Holden Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
1,560th of 4,355: where Holden Lakes ranks among U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,558 | Hesston KS | 3,458 | $75K | 5.7% | 4.1% | 21% | B |
| 1,559 | Marietta PA | 2,931 | $54K | 7.3% | 2.9% | 5% | B |
| 1,560 | Holden Lakes FL | 3,522 | $71K | 10.6% | 4.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,561 | Clinton ME | 3,378 | $71K | 2.6% | 2.7% | 11% | B |
| 1,562 | Lake Township MI | 3,348 | $83K | 10.4% | 2.6% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,355 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Lakes, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door is work for 32% of Holden Lakes
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Holden Lakes workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holden Lakes | – | B | A | 25 min | $70,809 |
| Orlando | 32% | B− | A | 26 min | $72,336 |
| Edgewood | under 1% | A | B− | 27 min | $81,481 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Orlando. Darker towns draw more of Holden Lakes’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Holden Lakes?
$70,809 (±$25,624) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holden Lakes?
10.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holden Lakes?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holden Lakes work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (32%, 5 mi), Lake Buena Vista (4%, 12 mi), Winter Park (2%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Holden Lakes walkable?
Holden Lakes is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.1 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holden Lakes without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holden Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holden Lakes
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.