New Holland Agriculture is listed alongside John Casper Stoever Log House on the National Register of Historic Places.

Pennsylvania Route 23 passes through the borough as Main Street, leading east 11 miles (18 km) to Morgantown and west 14 miles (23 km) to Lancaster, the county seat.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all land.

[10] The borough lies on a low ridge, with the north side draining via Groff Creek and other small streams to the Conestoga River and the south side draining to Mill Creek, a westward-flowing tributary of the Conestoga, which flows southwestward to the Susquehanna River.

The line is owned by Norfolk Southern Railway and serves a number of businesses along the way, notably RR Donnelley and Sons Printing in Lancaster, as well as one of the Dart Container factories, and L&S Sweeteners, both in Leola.

There were 2,159 housing units at an average density of 1,036.3 per square mile (400.1/km2).

Elementary schools within the district include New Holland, Blue Ball and Brecknock.