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Holliday, TX

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Overview


Holliday is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,605 people and just one neighborhood, Holliday is the 720th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Holliday, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.71% of Holliday’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Holliday is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Holliday who work in office and administrative support (10.12%), teaching (9.54%), and food service (9.10%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Holliday is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Holliday really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Holliday perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Being a small city, Holliday does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Holliday overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Holliday, 22.35% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Holliday in 2018 was $33,909, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,636 for a family of four. However, Holliday contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Holliday home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Holliday residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Holliday include Irish, German, Scottish, English, and French.

The most common language spoken in Holliday is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Holliday, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.3% of America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Holliday are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 33.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Holliday, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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