Grosse Pointe Farms is a somewhat small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 9,764 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Grosse Pointe Farms is the 133rd largest community in Michigan.

Grosse Pointe Farms is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 95.31% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Grosse Pointe Farms is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grosse Pointe Farms who work in management occupations (19.47%), sales jobs (15.01%), and legal occupations (9.89%).

Also of interest is that Grosse Pointe Farms has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Grosse Pointe Farms is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Because of many things, Grosse Pointe Farms is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Grosse Pointe Farms really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Grosse Pointe Farms perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Grosse Pointe Farms is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Grosse Pointe Farms isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.56% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small city, Grosse Pointe Farms does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Grosse Pointe Farms Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Grosse Pointe Farms, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Grosse Pointe Farms is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 68.14% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Grosse Pointe Farms in 2000 was $54,846, which is wealthy relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $219,384 for a family of four. However, Grosse Pointe Farms contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grosse Pointe Farms home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Grosse Pointe Farms is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Grosse Pointe Farms include German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, Scottish, French, and Greek.

The most common language spoken in Grosse Pointe Farms is English.