About Granger

Granger is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,332 people and just one neighborhood, Granger is the 535th largest community in Texas.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Granger is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Granger is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Granger who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.93%), sales jobs (9.30%), and building maintenance and grounds keeping (6.79%).

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

In addition, many people in Granger have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

One downside of living in Granger, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.76 minutes every day commuting to work.

Granger is a very car-oriented town. 97.48% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Granger is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Granger has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

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

Granger Information and Demographics

In Granger, just 10.70% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Granger in 2000 was $17,632, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $70,528 for a family of four.

Granger is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Granger home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Granger is White, followed by African-American. Granger also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.93% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Granger include Czech, German, Irish, English, and Czechoslovakian.

The most common language spoken in Granger is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Slavic languages.