Holt has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Home is the office for 16% of workers, next to 14% for Michigan as a whole. 4,838 jobs are based in Holt, and 10,981 of its residents work somewhere. The average commute takes 22 minutes each way; Michigan averages 24, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Holt: the gist
Holt and Lansing trade workers both ways
Lansing is the top workplace for Holt residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Holt come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Holt makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Holt are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Holt residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 14%. The jobs ↓
Most Holt residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; 2021 is the newest year Michigan has published.
28% of working residents work in Lansing
Where Holt clocks in
28% of workers
9% 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.
Making and building: 42% of jobs based in Holt
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holt, 2011 → 2021: 4,248 → 4,838. 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 2021.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Holt’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Holt
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 2021.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who commutes out of Holt, and who commutes in
On a workday 10,255 residents head out to work, 726 work right here, and 4,112 people come in from elsewhere.
About 19,000 people are in Holt on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 2021, primary jobs.
The daily trip from Holt: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holt workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,843 commuters (the 16% who work from home are left out). Across Michigan: 86% 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.
Work next door: 28% of Holt’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Lansing. Darker towns draw more of Holt’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 2021, 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 Holt: questions
What is the median household income in Holt?
$86,472 (±$5,144) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holt?
11.3%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holt?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holt work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lansing (28%, 5 mi), East Lansing (9%, 8 mi), Delhi Township (8%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Can you get around Holt without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holt, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holt
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, 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.