Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHolland draws 3,043 commuters a day, with 4.0 jobs for every working resident
Only 5% work in Holland itself; outside it, Toledo draws the most (32%, 7 miles). Holland has 3,078 jobs; 767 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Holland are B for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Holland, in a few figures
Holland fills up on a workday
Holland has 3,078 jobs, 4.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 4,100 people are in town, more than double the 1,800 who live here. Day and night ↓
Holland and Toledo trade workers both ways
Toledo is the top workplace for Holland residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Holland come from (32% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Holland 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 767 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Holland
On income, poverty and job access, Holland is better than 59% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Holland’s grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($64,868, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Holland’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Holland could be anywhere from C to A.
Who commutes out of Holland, and who commutes in
On a workday 732 residents head out to work and 35 work right here.
About 4,100 people are in Holland on a workday afternoon, 131% more 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.
Where Holland’s workforce comes from
Where Holland clocks in
32% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Miles to work from Holland
About 17% 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 kinds of work in Holland
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holland, 2013 → 2023: 2,850 → 3,078. 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 Holland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Holland: about 20 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holland workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 579 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 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.
Getting around Holland: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Holland is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 639 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). 5.7% of Holland households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Holland’s commuters take a bus or train.
Holland places 1,813th of 6,085 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,811 | Buffalo Township PA | 1,251 | $83K | 7.7% | 6.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,812 | Wolf River WI | 1,226 | $76K | 5.1% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,813 | Holland OH | 1,766 | $65K | 9.2% | 2.1% | 5% | B |
| 1,814 | Washington Township IN | 1,948 | $80K | 8.1% | 2.0% | 3% | B |
| 1,815 | South Thomaston ME | 1,520 | $87K | 4.2% | 0.0% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Holland, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
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 Holland: questions
What is the median household income in Holland?
$64,868 (±$17,054) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holland?
9.2%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holland?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holland work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Toledo (32%, 7 mi), Springfield Township (6%, 1 mi), Maumee (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Holland walkable?
Holland is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holland without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holland
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.