For about two in five of its working residents, Holliday is a commute to Wichita Falls
2% of workers work from home (Texas 14%). For jobs and income Holliday is better than 39% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (C+). Only 4% work in Holliday itself; outside it, Wichita Falls draws the most (40%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Holliday stands out on work
Holliday makes and builds things
57% of the jobs based in Holliday are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Holliday residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% 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 528 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Holliday
The poverty rate holds Holliday’s grade up (8.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($62,981, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.5%) is left out: Holliday’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, Holliday could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Where the trip to work from Holliday ends
Where Holliday clocks in
40% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
Goods, not services: 57% of the jobs in Holliday
316 jobs are based in Holliday.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holliday, 2013 → 2023: 200 → 316. 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 Holliday’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Holliday goes to work
About 40% 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 daily flow of workers through Holliday
On a workday 505 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 293 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Holliday on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.60 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.
The trip to work from Holliday: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holliday workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 778 commuters (the 2% 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.
Most of Holliday commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 790 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). 1.7% of Holliday households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Holliday’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,828th of 5,760: where Holliday ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,826 | Meade KS | 1,422 | $75K | 6.6% | 0.0% | 37% | C+ |
| 2,827 | Odem TX | 2,291 | $69K | 11.5% | 5.9% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,828 | Holliday TX | 1,733 | $63K | 8.7% | 5.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,829 | Tenino WA | 1,941 | $83K | 11.6% | 5.3% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,830 | Etna Township IN | 1,504 | $59K | 8.9% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Holliday, 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 Holliday: questions
What is the median household income in Holliday?
$62,981 (±$18,466) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holliday?
8.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holliday?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holliday work?
4% work in town.
Is Holliday walkable?
Holliday is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holliday 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 Holliday, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holliday
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.