Inver Grove Heights is a medium-sized city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 29,724 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Inver Grove Heights is the 27th largest community in Minnesota.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Inver Grove Heights is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Inver Grove Heights is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Inver Grove Heights who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.13%), sales jobs (11.29%), and management occupations (9.55%).

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

Inver Grove Heights is a very car-oriented city. This is because most people - 96.6% - drive by car to work every day, and few people choose alternative modes of transportation, such as public transit, cycling, or walking. In general, car-oriented communities have a layout that emphasizes streets, highways, and ease of parking, and sometimes this can be to the detriment of human-scale priorities such as walkability alongside roads, and public spaces. For example, strip malls are something you will find in Inver Grove Heights.

Inver Grove Heights is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Inver Grove Heights Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Inver Grove Heights 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: 29.60% of adults in Inver Grove Heights have a college degree.

The per capita income in Inver Grove Heights in 2000 was $25,493, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,972 for a family of four. However, Inver Grove Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Inver Grove Heights is English. Some people also speak Spanish.