Downing Street Historic District · Photo: User:Jessalo · CC BY-SA 4.0For about two in five of its working residents, Hollister is a commute to Branson
Measured by household income, Hollister is behind 83% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Hollister is better than 44% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (C). Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 13% for Missouri as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Hollister
Fewer than half of Hollister workers earn over $40,000 a year
35% of Hollister’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 21% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
40% of Hollister works in Branson
844 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Branson, 3.6 miles away across the town line. That’s 7 times as many as work in Hollister itself. The commute map ↓
Most Hollister residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Hollister are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 24 across Missouri. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Missouri worker. Time on the road ↓
A young workforce
30% of Hollister’s working residents are 29 or younger. 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.
The four measures behind Hollister’s grade
Unemployment holds Hollister’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($53,507, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hollister could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The 1,730 jobs based in Hollister
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hollister, 2013 → 2023: 1,775 → 1,730. 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 Hollister’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Hollister ends
Where Hollister clocks in
40% of workers
11% 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 far Hollister goes to work
About 16% 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.
A commute of about 19 minutes in Hollister
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hollister workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,812 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Missouri: 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.
Who works in Hollister, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,996 residents head out to work, 129 work right here, and 1,601 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 (0.81 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.
For most of Hollister, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.2% across Missouri.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,920 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.5% of Hollister households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hollister’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,300, Hollister ranks 2,251st of 3,798 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 4 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | St. Paul MO | 3,849 | $159K | 0.5% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | Frontenac MO | 3,790 | $233K | 2.0% | 4.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,249 | Corning NY | 5,734 | $88K | 8.2% | 8.1% | 12% | C+ |
| 2,250 | Mount Vernon MO | 4,835 | $53K | 13.8% | 2.0% | 24% | C+ |
| 2,251 | Hollister MO | 4,690 | $54K | 10.2% | 2.4% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,252 | Copperopolis CA | 4,285 | $108K | 7.4% | 5.6% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,253 | West Peoria IL | 4,187 | $66K | 8.4% | 9.2% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,798 | 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 Hollister, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
40% of Hollister works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Branson. Darker towns draw more of Hollister’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 Hollister: questions
What is the median household income in Hollister?
$53,507 (±$11,009) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hollister?
10.2%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hollister?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hollister work?
6% work in town.
Is Hollister walkable?
Hollister is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hollister without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hollister, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hollister
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.