Fort Gratiot is a medium-sized township located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 11,407 people and five associated neighborhoods, Fort Gratiot is the 104th largest community in Michigan.Unlike some townships where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fort Gratiot is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Gratiot is a township of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Gratiot who work in management occupations (10.22%), office and administrative support (9.35%), and sales jobs (9.25%). It is a fairly quiet township 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!) Fort Gratiot 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. Fort Gratiot has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fort Gratiot than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fort Gratiot may be for you.The overall education level of Fort Gratiot is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.45% of adults 25 and older in the township have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Fort Gratiot in 2022 was $41,842, which is wealthy relative to Michigan, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,368 for a family of four. However, Fort Gratiot contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Fort Gratiot home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Gratiot residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fort Gratiot include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Fort Gratiot is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
