About East Granby

East Granby is a very small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 4,745 people and just one neighborhood, East Granby is the 130th largest community in Connecticut.

East Granby is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, East Granby is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in East Granby who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.36%), management occupations (10.58%), and teaching (9.11%).

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

In addition, East Granby is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

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

East Granby 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 East Granby, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.44% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, East Granby does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

East Granby Information and Demographics

The citizens of East Granby are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.19% of adults in East Granby have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in East Granby in 2000 was $30,805, which is upper middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,220 for a family of four. However, East Granby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call East Granby home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in East Granby is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in East Granby include Italian, Irish, Polish, German, English, French Canadian, French, Lithuanian, and Russian.

The most common language spoken in East Granby is English.