Grand Forks is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 58,692 people and 16 associated neighborhoods, Grand Forks is the third largest community in North Dakota.

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

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 very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because Grand Forks 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 Forks 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.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 14.91 minutes getting to work every day.

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 2022 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.