Hollister is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 34,614 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Hollister is the 214th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hollister is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hollister is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hollister who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.92%), sales jobs (11.00%), and management occupations (8.53%).

Also of interest is that Hollister has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In Hollister, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.40 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Hollister is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

Hollister Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Hollister is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 14.96%: 15.00% of adults 25 and older in Hollister have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hollister in 2000 was $18,857, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $75,428 for a family of four.

Hollister is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hollister home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Hollister is White, followed by Asian. Hollister also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 54.87% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Hollister include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Portuguese.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Hollister's cultural character, accounting for 20.81% of the city's population.

The most common language spoken in Hollister is English. Some people also speak Spanish.