About Granger

Granger is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,479 people and just one neighborhood, Granger is the 720th largest community in Texas.

Granger is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Granger is a city of service providers, sales and office workers and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Granger who work in office and administrative support (11.64%), management occupations (10.27%) and maintenance occupations (7.88%).

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.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.73% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

One downside of living in Granger, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.76 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Granger Information and Demographics

The population of Granger has a very low overall level of education: only 8.79% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Granger in 2010 was $19,161, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $76,644 for a family of four. However, Granger contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Granger is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Granger home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Granger residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or 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 33.12% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Granger include German, Czech, Irish and English.

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

Granger, TX Appreciation Rates Help

PERIOD	TOTAL APPRECIATION	AVG. ANNUAL RATE	COMPARED TO TX*	COMPARED TO AMERICA*
SINCE 1990	99.79%	3.05%	8	6
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				* 10 is highest

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