One thing that you will notice about Grand Junction is that there is a good-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. Many singles consider Grand Junction a good place to live without being in a really big city, with opportunities for friendships and fun with others like themselves.
One of the benefits of Grand Junction is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.40 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
The education level of Grand Junction citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 35.23% of adults in Grand Junction have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Grand Junction in 2018 was $37,017, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,068 for a family of four. However, Grand Junction contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Grand Junction is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Grand Junction home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grand Junction residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Grand Junction also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.48% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Grand Junction include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Grand Junction is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
