About Grenville

Grenville is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 47 people and just one neighborhood, Grenville is the 126th largest community in New Mexico.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Grenville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 58.8% of the Grenville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Grenville is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grenville who work in farm management (23.53%), management occupations (17.65%), and business and financial occupations (0.00%).

Another important characteristic of Grenville is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Grenville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 11.76 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Grenville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Grenville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Grenville Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Grenville is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 27.78% of adults in Grenville have a college degree.

The per capita income in Grenville in 2000 was $16,281, which is upper middle income relative to New Mexico, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $65,124 for a family of four. Grenville also has one of the lowest poverty rates in America, with just 0% of the people in Grenville living in poverty.

The people who call Grenville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Grenville is White, followed by African-American. Grenville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.64% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Grenville include Scotch-Irish, Irish, German, English, Dutch, and French.

The most common language spoken in Grenville is English. Some people also speak Spanish.