Holland is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 181 people and just one neighborhood, Holland is the 508th largest community in Missouri. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Holland, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Holland, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Holland’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Holland does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $36,094.00.
Holland is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.96% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Holland is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Holland who work in office and administrative support (36.96%), maintenance occupations (21.74%), and healthcare suport services (10.87%).
Also of interest is that Holland has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Holland telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.74% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Holland has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Holland has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Holland than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Holland may be for you.
Being a small town, Holland does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Holland has a very low overall level of education: only 7.14% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Holland in 2022 was $31,295, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,180 for a family of four. However, Holland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Holland is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Holland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Holland residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Holland include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Holland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Holland are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 31.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.3%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Holland, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (90.5%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.