About Grant

Grant is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,038 people and just one neighborhood, Grant is the 169th largest community in Minnesota.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Grant is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Grant is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grant who work in management occupations (17.34%), office and administrative support jobs (13.42%), and sales jobs (10.90%).

In addition, Grant is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Grant 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, Grant really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Grant 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.

Grant is a very car-oriented city. 96.64% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Grant is a small city, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Grant has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small city, Grant does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Grant Information and Demographics

The citizens of Grant are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 43.47% of adults in Grant have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Grant in 2000 was $44,486, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $177,944 for a family of four. However, Grant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grant home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Grant is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Grant include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, English, French, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Grant is English.