Photo: Jared C. Benedict. (Uploads) · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Holly has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 2% work in Mount Holly itself; outside it, Rutland draws the most (20%, 16 miles). Mount Holly has 102 jobs, and 528 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Mount Holly are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mount Holly at work: what stands out
Jobs & income in Mount Holly: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Mount Holly is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mount Holly’s grade up ($78,015, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Mount Holly’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, Mount Holly could be anywhere from D to B.
Mount Holly by day and by night
On a workday 515 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 89 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Mount Holly on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer 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 Mount Holly goes to work
Where Mount Holly clocks in
Lines 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.
Factories, building and farms: 49% of the jobs in Mount Holly
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Holly, 2013 → 2023: 112 → 102. 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 Mount Holly’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Mount Holly spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Holly workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 518 commuters (the 12% who work from home are left out). Across Vermont: 82% 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.
The distance from Mount Holly to work
About 19% 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.
Most of Mount Holly commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Holly is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 590 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 1.8% of Mount Holly households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Holly’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mount Holly is 3,593rd of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 587 | South Hero VT | 1,726 | $127K | 3.5% | 5.9% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 645 | Dummerston VT | 1,859 | $102K | 4.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 666 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,591 | Bluff City TN | 1,836 | $61K | 15.3% | 6.8% | 2% | C |
| 3,592 | Jefferson Township OH | 1,839 | $60K | 13.1% | 2.9% | 4% | C |
| 3,593 | Mount Holly VT | 1,373 | $78K | 11.9% | 1.3% | 2% | C |
| 3,594 | Elkader IA | 1,183 | $63K | 9.5% | 0.0% | 26% | C |
| 3,595 | Baker MT | 1,776 | $85K | 12.5% | 0.0% | 43% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Mount Holly, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
15% of Mount Holly works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Ludlow (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Holly workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Holly | – | C | C− | 27 min | $78,015 |
| Wallingford | 5% | C | C+ | 25 min | $80,230 |
| Ludlow | 10% | C | A− | 20 min | $54,885 |
| Shrewsbury | under 3% | B− | B− | 26 min | $91,250 |
| Weston | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Plymouth | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Mount Tabor | under 3% | — | — | 46 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Weston, Plymouth and Mount Tabor: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Holly’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Mount Holly: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Holly?
$78,015 (±$19,089) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Holly?
11.9%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Holly?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Holly work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rutland (20%, 16 mi), Rutland (10%, 17 mi), Ludlow (10%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Holly walkable?
Mount Holly is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Holly without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Holly, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Holly
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.