Grand Marais is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,350 people and two associated neighborhoods, Grand Marais is the 374th largest community in Minnesota.

A relatively large number of people in Grand Marais telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.90% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Grand Marais has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Grand Marais has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Grand Marais than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Grand Marais may be for you.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Grand Marais spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.25 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Grand Marais 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.

The education level of Grand Marais ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Grand Marais, 44.44% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Grand Marais in 2018 was $36,814, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,256 for a family of four. However, Grand Marais contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grand Marais home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grand Marais residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Grand Marais include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Grand Marais is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.