Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Holland earn less than those in 70% of U.S. towns
5% of workers work from home, where Texas as a whole has 14%. Below the poverty line: 18.8% of residents, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Holland C; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Holland apart
Jobs & income in Holland: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Holland is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Holland’s grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.0%) 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 D to B+.
26% of working residents work in Temple
Where Holland clocks in
10% 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.
Who works in Holland, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 425 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 273 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Holland on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.66 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.
What the 294 jobs in Holland are
294 jobs are based in Holland.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holland, 2013 → 2023: 93 → 294. 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.
Each way, about 28 minutes from Holland
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holland workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 575 commuters (the 5% 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.
Half of Holland commutes less than 19 miles
About 22% 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 commute in Holland is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Holland is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, 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 605 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). 9.7% of Holland households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Holland’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Holland is 2,467th among 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Serenada TX | 1,444 | $155K | 1.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,465 | Cedarville AR | 1,458 | $60K | 9.5% | 1.7% | 4% | C |
| 2,466 | Tolar TX | 1,472 | $91K | 17.2% | 6.7% | <1% | C |
| 2,467 | Holland TX | 1,188 | $63K | 18.8% | 3.0% | 5% | C |
| 2,468 | Omaha Township NE | 1,039 | $67K | 9.5% | 11.2% | 7% | C |
| 2,469 | Hamilton Township OH | 1,589 | $58K | 9.2% | 1.5% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Texas.
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?
$62,500 (±$24,183) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holland?
18.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holland?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holland work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Temple (26%, 15 mi), Austin (10%, 46 mi), Belton (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Holland walkable?
Holland is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holland 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 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.