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Place dossier plate
SheetMI-HOLLAND-MI · Holland, MI 34,266 pop · income 54th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Holland
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Holland on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jackson · lowest
42,848
Jackson · lowest
42,848 median HH income
22.5% of the leader · rank #1
Encore at Mon… · near
72,896
Encore at Mon… · near
72,896 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #2
McCallsburg · near
72,898
McCallsburg · near
72,898 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #3
Breese · near
72,900
Breese · near
72,900 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #4
Holland · this city
72,905
Holland · this city
72,905 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #5
Milford · near
72,907
Milford · near
72,907 median HH income
38.2% of the leader · rank #6
South Riding · highest
190,701
South Riding · highest
190,701 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Holland on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 34,266.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Holland - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Holland places in the 54th percentile for household income and the 42nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
54th
percentile, household income
52nd
percentile, home value
32nd
percentile, median rent
42nd
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Holland, MI
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 34,266 residents in Holland, a small city within Michigan. Holland households earn a median of $72,905 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.3%. Home values in Holland run a median of $235,800, and the median resident age is 32.0 years. Educational attainment runs 34.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 225 residential building permits were authorized in Holland (Building Boom), up 2400% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Holland reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1615.4 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Michigan run below the national norm: the state registers 96.2 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,113 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Michigan run around $238, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Holland report an average commute of 15.8 minutes, with 71.2% driving alone and 8.8% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 49.6 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Holland's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Holland, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Holland?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.8 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Holland?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1615.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 29% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Which cities make useful reference points for Holland?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Michigan, the closest population matches are Eastpointe (34,003 residents, $58,196 income); Bay City (32,445 residents, $47,904 income); Muskegon (37,203 residents, $46,342 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pikesville, MD (34,253 residents); Westmont, CA (34,291 residents); Stow, OH (34,317 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
How far does income reach against housing in Holland?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Holland?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 34.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
7.3%
Bachelor's degree+
34.6%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,025 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 225 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
34,347
2025 estimate
35,372
Period change
+3.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 7.3% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.2 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Michigan average
D
City profile score · Holland, MI
49/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living C
96.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income C-
$72,905
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
384 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Holland profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.6%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.2 index
Household income: 52/100 (C-) · $72,905
Poverty rate: 51/100 (C-) · 7.3%
Violent crime: 23/100 (F) · 384 /100k
Where Holland sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Holland's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Holland highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Holland, MI (this city): home $235,800, crime 1,615/100k
Stow, OH : home $238,000, crime 1,870/100k
Panama City, FL : home $243,200, crime 2,838/100k
Eastpointe, MI : home $129,100, crime 2,992/100k
Bay City, MI : home $89,900, crime 2,432/100k
Jackson, MI : home $94,700, crime 4,797/100k
Southgate, MI : home $165,400, crime 2,463/100k
Burton, MI : home $131,200, crime 3,098/100k
How does Holland compare to other US cities?
Holland measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income54% higher than other cities
Home value52% pricier than other cities
Median rent32% pricier than other cities
Safety42% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Michigan and the picture shifts: Holland ranks #162 of 254 Michigan cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Holland against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Michigan only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Michigan-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Holland near the bottom of Michigan's cities
Among the 727 Michigan cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Holland ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Holland only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#203 of 718
72nd percentile in Michigan
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 727
0th percentile in Michigan
Median Home Value
#148 of 721
79th percentile in Michigan
Poverty Rate
#391 of 727
45th percentile in Michigan
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#161 of 727
78th percentile in Michigan
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Michigan only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
54th percentile nationally for median household income · 42nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Holland's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Holland's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Holland's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$235,80048th percentilemore affordable than 48% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Holland's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,849 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,216 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Holland sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,849 of 15,516 and #1,216 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$72,905Holland, MI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Holland, MI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Holland, MI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
34,266
Median Income
$72,905
Median Home Value
$235,800
Median Age
32.0
Poverty Rate
7.3%
Labor force participation
65.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1615.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
384.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1231.1
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Holland's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
34,347 residents
2021
34,180 residents
2022
34,013 residents
2023
34,521 residents
2024
34,991 residents
2025
35,372 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
225
housing units authorized
Single-Family
23
detached homes
Multifamily
202
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
9
9
0
$2.5M
2020
10
10
0
$2.7M
2021
11
11
0
$3.0M
2022
294
34
260
$63.7M
2023
250
50
200
$72.0M
2024
225
23
202
$34.4M
Permit volume increased 2400% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.8 minutes
Drive Alone
71.2%
Carpool
8.8%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
8.4%
Work from Home
8.8%
Other
2.3%
Based on 18,310 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Michigan statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $238
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Michigan at $238 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Michigan statewide averages, not a meter reading for Holland. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Michigan's BEA cost-of-living index is 96.2 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Holland is $1,113/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Michigan statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.6 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Michigan statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Holland sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Holland compares to similar-size Michigan cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.