Oakland · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Hollister commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Hollister report 44 jobs, against 150 working residents. Hardly any work in Hollister; the top destination outside it is Rocky Mount (20%, 21 miles). For 9% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across North Carolina.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Hollister, and who commutes in
On a workday 150 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 44 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Hollister on a workday afternoon, 13% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Hollister’s working residents head each day
Where Hollister clocks in
20% of workers
6% 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.
What Hollister’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hollister, 2014 → 2024: 14 → 44. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hollister’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Hollister takes about 38 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hollister workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 273 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across North Carolina: 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.
Half of Hollister commutes less than 22 miles
About 28% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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?
$55,938 (±$24,676) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hollister?
15.9%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hollister?
38 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hollister work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rocky Mount (20%, 21 mi), Roanoke Rapids (7%, 21 mi), Raleigh (6%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Hollister 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 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), 2024, 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.