Downtown and Eighth Street
The shopping blocks of Eighth Street, listed on the National Register as the Holland Downtown Historic District in 1990, and the riverfront north to Windmill Island Gardens. Nearly every home in this Census block group is in a building of two or more units and most are rented. Owned condos and lofts carry a Census median near $337,000, with a wide margin. Many downtown streets and sidewalks run on the city's snowmelt system, and low ground by the Black River is in FEMA's high-risk flood zone.
Hope College blocks
The streets around Hope College's 120-acre campus, shared with Western Theological Seminary since 1884, next to downtown. The typical home here dates from 1938 by Census median, a mix of single-family and two-family houses with apartments, and renters outnumber owners. Owner values run near $233,000 to $239,000 by block group.
The Holland Historic District
Along 11th through 15th streets between Washington Boulevard and College Avenue, with the blocks west of River Avenue running toward Kollen Park on Lake Macatawa. The city's first local historic district, formed in 1986 with about 186 properties, sits here, and the Washington Boulevard district takes in houses on 9th Street. West of River Avenue, about three in four homes are detached, the typical one from 1938, with an owner median near $242,000 and a wide margin.
Washington Square and Rosa Parks Green
From 16th Street to 24th Street: the Washington Square shops at 18th and 19th streets, whose single block of Washington Avenue joined the National Register in 2026, and Rosa Parks Green to the east, near Baker Lofts in a former furniture factory on 24th Street. Typical home from 1938, about 86% detached, owners in about four of five occupied homes, Census tract median near $222,000.
24th to 32nd Street
The band that holds Holland Hospital on Michigan Avenue, Holland High School on Van Raalte Avenue and the Holland Aquatic Center. Its central blocks were built up mostly in the late 1940s and 1950s, the western blocks around 1961, and the east end toward US-31 adds townhomes and condos, typically from the 1980s. Census tract owner median near $243,000, typical home from 1959.
Westside by Graafschap Road
The city's west edge, home to the 18-acre DeGraaf Nature Center on Graafschap Road. Almost every home is a detached house, typically from about 1961, and owners hold close to nine in ten. Owner estimates in the Census survey place the middle half of homes between about $262,000 and $518,000, with the tract median near $349,000.
Holland Heights
East of US-31, where the city's neighborhood guide describes homes built from 1950 to 1990 and Van Raalte Farm Park spreads over 160 acres off 16th Street. About half of the tract's homes are in apartment or condo buildings, mostly toward its southeast edge, and renters slightly outnumber owners. Owner median near $278,000, typical home from 1985. Paw Paw Preserve on the Black River marks the flood-prone north edge.
Maplewood
The Allegan County side between Washington and Lincoln avenues, from 32nd Street south toward 40th, around Matt Urban Park. Its northern blocks are mostly detached homes from the mid-1950s, nearly all owner-occupied, with a block-group median near $239,000. Farther south and east, condos and attached homes from the late 1980s make up about half of the homes. Holland Public Schools.
West of Washington Avenue, south of 32nd
The newest part of the Allegan County side, with homes typically from the 1990s. Townhomes and condos make up a large share, and south of 40th Street most homes are in multi-unit buildings and renters outnumber owners. Block-group owner medians run from about $284,000 to $362,000. Mostly Holland Public Schools, with a southern strip in Hamilton Community Schools.
The south side job center and airport
The far south and southeast of the city, around West Michigan Regional Airport on Geurink Boulevard and out to I-196 and M-40, which the city's Holland Heights guide calls the Southside job center. Most of this land is in Hamilton Community Schools. About 620 homes stood here in the 2020 Census, including nearly all of the city's roughly 290 manufactured homes, and about nine in ten of those 620 are in Holland Public Schools.
