Holyoke is a very small city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 2,293 people and just one neighborhood, Holyoke is the 133rd largest community in Colorado.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Holyoke is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.87% of the Holyoke workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Holyoke is a city of managers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Holyoke who work in management occupations (20.09%), farm management occupations (8.06%), and office and administrative support (6.07%).
The overall crime rate in Holyoke is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Holyoke is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Holyoke are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.73% of adults in Holyoke having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Holyoke in 2022 was $38,335, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,340 for a family of four. However, Holyoke contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Holyoke is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Holyoke home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Holyoke residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Holyoke also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.51% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Holyoke include German, Irish, English, Welsh, and French.
In addition, Holyoke has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (21.73%).
The most common language spoken in Holyoke is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 11.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
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 Holyoke are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 55.0% of America'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, 39.4% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.0%), and 11.9% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (35.8%).
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 Holyoke, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (25.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.3%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 18.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (15.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.