Garden City vs Holly Pond

A side-by-side comparison of Garden City and Holly Pond: population, income, housing, and more.

Garden City and Holly Pond are places in Alabama. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Holly Pond has the higher population (816 vs 572 in Garden City). Garden City has the higher median household income ($55,313 vs $45,221 in Holly Pond). Holly Pond has the higher median home value ($169,000 vs $116,100 in Garden City).

Population, income & housing

	Garden City	Holly Pond
Population	572	816
Median age	42.0 yrs	34.6 yrs
Median household income	$55,313	$45,221
Median home value	$116,100	$169,000
Median gross rent	—	$686
Housing units	227	354
Homeownership rate	85.4%	54.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.2%	14.5%
Unemployment rate	7.6%	3.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Garden City	Holly Pond
Population	557 → 572 (+2.7%)	1,064 → 816 (-23.3%)
Median household income	$38,365 → $55,313 (+44.2%)	$42,917 → $45,221 (+5.4%)
Median home value	$85,300 → $116,100 (+36.1%)	$131,700 → $169,000 (+28.3%)
Median gross rent	$805 → $725 (-9.9%)	$520 → $686 (+31.9%)

Garden City

Population

557572

Median household income

$38,365$55,313

Median home value

$85,300$116,100

Median gross rent

$805$725

Holly Pond

Population

1,064816

Median household income

$42,917$45,221

Median home value

$131,700$169,000

Median gross rent

$520$686

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Garden City	Holly Pond
Under 5	5.1%	9.8%
5 to 17	15.9%	15.6%
18 to 24	12.1%	6.0%
25 to 34	7.9%	19.5%
35 to 44	14.7%	9.4%
45 to 54	12.6%	11.5%
55 to 64	6.8%	7.7%
65 to 74	11.5%	7.8%
75 and over	13.5%	12.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Garden City	Holly Pond
White (non-Hispanic)	94.6%	94.5%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.9%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	5.2%	2.2%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	2.5%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Garden City	Holly Pond
No high school diploma	30.8%	19.3%
High school graduate	33.7%	28.7%
Some college or associate's	25.3%	37.5%
Bachelor's degree	9.4%	7.9%
Graduate or professional degree	0.8%	6.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Garden City	Holly Pond
Drove alone	95.6%	78.3%
Carpooled	3.8%	13.8%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.3%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.5%	7.6%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Garden City	Holly Pond
1-unit, detached	73.1%	73.2%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.6%
2 to 4 units	2.6%	9.9%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	6.5%
20 or more units	0.0%	1.1%
Mobile home & other	24.2%	8.8%

Poverty & households

	Garden City	Holly Pond
Poverty rate	23.4%	26.7%
Average household size	2.79	2.53
Mean commute (minutes)	31	30
Median year structure built	1971	1981