Holding Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 153 jobs in Holding Township; 563 of its residents have a job. Holding Township grades A− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. For 7% of workers, the job is at home; Minnesota has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Holding Township: the figures worth knowing
Holding Township is a place people come home to
There are 153 jobs based in Holding Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Holding Township has about 820 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Holding Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 28 minutes each way, against 23 across Minnesota. Over a year that’s about 215 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 563 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Holding Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Holding Township is better than 75% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Holding Township’s grade up (2.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 27% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Holding Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Holding Township could be anywhere from B to A−.
Who leaves Holding Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 548 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Holding Township on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
The trip to work from Holding Township: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holding Township workers work from home, vs 18% across Minnesota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 703 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Minnesota: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
19% of working residents work in St. Cloud
Where Holding Township clocks in
19% 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.
A place that makes things: 75% of Holding Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holding Township, 2013 → 2023: 74 → 153. 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 Holding Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Holding Township
About 18% 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.
The commute in Holding Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Holding Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Minnesota, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 753 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 1.2% of Holding Township households have no vehicle (Minnesota 6.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Holding Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Holding Township next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 636th of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 8 | Medicine Lake MN | 1,342 | $184K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Dellwood MN | 1,148 | $225K | 4.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Louisville Township MN | 1,361 | $143K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 634 | Sarcoxie Township KS | 1,000 | $121K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A− |
| 635 | White Oak Township MI | 1,220 | $98K | 5.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A− |
| 636 | Holding Township MN | 1,233 | $99K | 2.1% | 2.3% | 3% | A− |
| 637 | Jackson Township OH | 1,034 | $99K | 1.2% | 7.6% | 1% | A− |
| 638 | Hebron IL | 1,392 | $85K | 6.6% | 3.5% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Holding Township, the top three, the last and three more from Minnesota.
Holding Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Holding Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holding Township | – | A− | C+ | 28 min | $99,073 |
| Brockway Township | under 2% | A | C | 25 min | $116,250 |
| Avon Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 27 min | $107,917 |
| Krain Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 28 min | $101,667 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Holding Township’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 Holding Township: questions
What is the median household income in Holding Township?
$99,073 (±$17,665) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $89,062 across Minnesota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holding Township?
2.1%, against 9.3% across Minnesota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holding Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Minnesota and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holding Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Cloud (19%, 19 mi), Holdingford (10%, 1 mi), Albany (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Holding Township walkable?
Holding Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holding Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holding Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holding Township
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.