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%).
Overall, Holyoke’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small city, Holyoke does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Holyoke citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.73% of adults in Holyoke have at least a bachelor's 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.
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.
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.
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 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.5% of 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.
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 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 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 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.
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 (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.