Photo: Crimsonedge34 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hollis has lower household incomes than 97% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Hollis are D− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Below the poverty line: 29.2% of residents, where Oklahoma as a whole has 15.3%. About two in five work in Hollis itself; outside it, Altus draws the most (9%, 34 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hollis and work: the main findings
Most jobs in Hollis go to people who live here
Of the 443 jobs based in Hollis, 50% are held by Hollis residents. In most towns, people from elsewhere hold most of the local jobs. Day and night ↓
Hollis’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hollis is Altus, 35 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (51) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. 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 555 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Hollis’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hollis is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hollis’ grade.
Unemployment (10.0%) is left out: Hollis’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, Hollis stays D−.
Who commutes out of Hollis, and who commutes in
On a workday 333 residents head out to work, 222 work right here, and 221 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 (0.80 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.
How many miles Hollis commutes
About 32% 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.
Where Hollis goes to work
Where Hollis clocks in
9% of workers
8% of workers
2% 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 the 443 jobs in Hollis are
443 jobs are based in Hollis.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hollis, 2013 → 2023: 528 → 443. 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 Hollis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Hollis spends getting to work: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hollis workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 629 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Oklahoma: 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.
In Hollis, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hollis is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.5% across Oklahoma.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 652 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). 8.0% of Hollis households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hollis’ commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, and where Hollis sits
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 913 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,198 | Union City OK | 2,129 | $106K | 11.5% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,535 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,698 | Fayette MS | 1,315 | $29K | 38.0% | 1.0% | 21% | D− |
| 5,699 | Tchula MS | 1,659 | $35K | 44.6% | 23.9% | 1% | D− |
| 5,700 | Hollis OK | 1,673 | $39K | 29.2% | 10.0% | 40% | D− |
| 5,701 | Eagle Butte SD | 1,269 | $46K | 31.8% | 24.7% | 20% | D− |
| 5,702 | Menard TX | 1,356 | $41K | 26.7% | 9.2% | 26% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Hollis, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
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 Hollis: questions
What is the median household income in Hollis?
$38,672 (±$7,519) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hollis?
29.2%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hollis?
17 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hollis work?
40% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altus (9%, 34 mi), Oklahoma City (8%, 146 mi), Lawton (2%, 85 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hollis walkable?
Hollis is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hollis without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hollis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hollis
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.