One thing noticeable about Grand Junction, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That’s because Grand Junction is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Grand Junction a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Grand Junction spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.40 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
The citizens of Grand Junction are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.23% of adults in Grand Junction have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Grand Junction in 2022 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.
