About Grimes

Grimes is a somewhat small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 5,698 people and just one neighborhood, Grimes is the 69th largest community in Iowa.

Grimes is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.21% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Grimes is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grimes who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.57%), management occupations (11.55%), and sales jobs (10.95%).

Of important note, Grimes is also a town of artists. Grimes has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Grimes's character.

Also of interest is that Grimes has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Grimes is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Grimes really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Grimes perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Grimes is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Grimes, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.87% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small town, Grimes doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Grimes Information and Demographics

The education level of Grimes citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 33.20% of adults in Grimes have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Grimes in 2000 was $24,862, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,448 for a family of four. However, Grimes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grimes home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Grimes is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grimes include German, English, Irish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Grimes is English.