Household incomes in Holiday Lakes trail those of 93% of U.S. towns
32.6% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.8% across Texas. The two grades for Holiday Lakes are D for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers (Texas 14%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Holiday Lakes apart on work
Holiday Lakes is a place people come home to
There are 13 jobs based in Holiday Lakes, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Holiday Lakes has about 680 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Holiday Lakes’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Holiday Lakes is Houston, 41 miles away as the crow flies. 20% of working residents (78) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Holiday Lakes workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 392 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Holiday Lakes earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Holiday Lakes is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Holiday Lakes’ grade up (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (11.1%) is left out: Holiday Lakes’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Holiday Lakes could be anywhere from D to C.
Holiday Lakes on a workday afternoon
On a workday 392 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.
About 680 people are in Holiday Lakes on a workday afternoon, 36% fewer than live here.
0.03 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 2024, primary jobs.
How far Holiday Lakes’ workers travel
About 18% 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.
Getting to work from Holiday Lakes takes about 37 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holiday Lakes workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 289 commuters (the 1% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% 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.
20% of working residents work in Houston
Where Holiday Lakes clocks in
20% of workers
7% 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.
What Holiday Lakes’ employers do
13 jobs are based in Holiday Lakes.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holiday Lakes, 2014 → 2024: 266 → 13. 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 Holiday Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Holiday Lakes gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Holiday Lakes is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Holiday Lakes near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 292 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). 2.3% of Holiday Lakes households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Holiday Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
2,378th of 3,133: where Holiday Lakes ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Weston TX | 1,140 | $144K | 2.8% | 0.7% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Randolph AFB TX | 1,240 | $113K | 2.8% | 3.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,376 | Mount Vernon AL | 1,385 | $46K | 17.8% | 2.7% | 5% | D |
| 2,377 | Osborne KS | 1,249 | $52K | 9.3% | 1.1% | 23% | D |
| 2,378 | Holiday Lakes TX | 1,059 | $45K | 32.6% | 11.1% | 0% | D |
| 2,379 | Mill Creek Township KS | 1,008 | $62K | 12.9% | 2.5% | 9% | D |
| 2,380 | West Plains Township KS | 1,113 | $72K | 17.9% | 2.7% | 15% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Holiday Lakes, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Holiday Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Holiday Lakes?
$44,500 (±$13,006) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holiday Lakes?
32.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holiday Lakes?
37 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holiday Lakes work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (20%, 41 mi), Angleton (7%, 6 mi), Clute (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Holiday Lakes walkable?
Holiday Lakes is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holiday Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holiday Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holiday Lakes
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. 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.