Grand Forks is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Grand Forks enrolled in college, Grand Forks has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Not only is Grand Forks a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a decent-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Grand Forks spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 14.91 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
The citizens of Grand Forks are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.96% of adults in Grand Forks have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Grand Forks in 2018 was $36,654, which is middle income relative to North Dakota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,616 for a family of four. However, Grand Forks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Grand Forks is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Grand Forks home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grand Forks residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grand Forks include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Grand Forks is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
