About Grand Terrace

Grand Terrace is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 11,112 people and just one neighborhood, Grand Terrace is the 409th largest community in California.

Grand Terrace is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Grand Terrace is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand Terrace who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.16%), management occupations (11.11%), and sales jobs (10.46%).

In addition, Grand Terrace 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.

Grand Terrace is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Grand Terrace 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. 97.73% 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, Grand Terrace doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Grand Terrace Information and Demographics

The education level of Grand Terrace citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 25.75% of adults in Grand Terrace have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Grand Terrace in 2000 was $22,313, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $89,252 for a family of four.

Grand Terrace is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Grand Terrace home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Grand Terrace is White, followed by Asian. Grand Terrace also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.87% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Grand Terrace include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

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