Grand Island is a somewhat small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 18,622 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Grand Island is the 104th largest community in New York.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Grand Island is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Grand Island is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand Island who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.99%), management occupations (11.44%), and sales jobs (11.44%).

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

In addition, Grand Island 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, Grand Island 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, Grand Island really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Grand Island 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.

Residents of Grand Island by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 98.1% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Grand Island may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

Grand Island is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Grand Island Information and Demographics

The education level of Grand Island citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 32.44% of adults in Grand Island have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Grand Island in 2000 was $25,816, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,264 for a family of four.

The people who call Grand Island home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Grand Island is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grand Island include German, Italian, Polish, Irish, English, Hungarian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Grand Island is English.