Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0Hollandale’s household incomes are among the lowest in the country
39.4% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 18.9% for Mississippi as a whole. Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. Hollandale grades D− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Hollandale apart
Hollandale and Greenville trade workers both ways
Greenville is the top workplace for Hollandale residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Hollandale come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer than half of Hollandale workers earn over $40,000 a year
37% of Hollandale’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 15% earn $1,250 a month or less. 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 730 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Hollandale’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Hollandale is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hollandale’s grade.
Unemployment (9.5%) is left out: Hollandale’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hollandale stays D−.
22% of working residents work in Greenville
Where Hollandale clocks in
22% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
The 473 jobs based in Hollandale
473 jobs are based in Hollandale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hollandale, 2013 → 2023: 607 → 473. 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 Hollandale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Hollandale
On a workday 581 residents head out to work, 149 work right here, and 324 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Hollandale on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.65 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Hollandale: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hollandale workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 781 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% 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.
The commute from Hollandale, by distance
About 25% 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 Hollandale, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hollandale is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, the same share as across Mississippi, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 796 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). 10.0% of Hollandale households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hollandale’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800, and where Hollandale sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,653 | Guntown MS | 2,616 | $96K | 9.8% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,722 | Lynchburg MS | 2,161 | $89K | 7.1% | 10.2% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,733 | DeLisle MS | 1,906 | $72K | 7.2% | 3.9% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,116 | Eudora AR | 1,511 | $29K | 28.1% | 8.5% | 37% | D− |
| 5,117 | Cumberland KY | 1,761 | $35K | 52.9% | 30.1% | 10% | D− |
| 5,118 | Hollandale MS | 2,090 | $26K | 39.4% | 9.5% | 20% | D− |
| 5,119 | Cave Junction OR | 2,074 | $39K | 27.7% | 8.3% | 21% | D− |
| 5,120 | Oroville WA | 1,935 | $40K | 26.9% | 5.5% | 19% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Hollandale, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
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 Hollandale: questions
What is the median household income in Hollandale?
$25,508 (±$18,384) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hollandale?
39.4%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hollandale?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hollandale work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (22%, 18 mi), Indianola (4%, 22 mi), Jackson (4%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hollandale walkable?
Hollandale is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hollandale 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 Hollandale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hollandale
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.