Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, income and commuting in Holland, IN
Commuters spend 21 minutes getting to work on average; the Indiana average is 24, the U.S. 26. Only 2% work in Holland; the top destination outside it is Jasper (24%, 12 miles). Employers in Holland report 307 jobs for 317 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Holland at work: what stands out
Holland and Jasper trade workers both ways
Jasper is the top workplace for Holland residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Holland come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Holland pay little
34% of the jobs based in Holland pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Holland makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Holland are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Holland residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 38%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 317 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Holland goes to work
Where Holland clocks in
24% of workers
21% of workers
8% 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.
Holland works in goods: 43% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holland, 2013 → 2023: 283 → 307. 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 Holland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Holland
On a workday 310 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 300 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 21 minutes each way for Holland’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holland workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 323 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% 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.
How far it is to work from Holland
About 15% 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.
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 Holland: questions
What is the median household income in Holland?
$70,313 (±$10,180) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holland?
5.4%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holland?
21 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holland work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jasper (24%, 12 mi), Huntingburg (21%, 6 mi), Ferdinand (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Holland without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holland
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.