Grand Bay is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 3,460 people and three associated neighborhoods, Grand Bay is the 156th largest community in Alabama.Grand Bay is a blue-collar town, with 45.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Grand Bay is a town of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand Bay who work in management occupations (14.05%), sales jobs (13.13%), and teaching (9.31%). It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Grand Bay 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. Grand Bay has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Grand Bay than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Grand Bay may be for you. Grand Bay is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery. One downside of living in Grand Bay is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Grand Bay, the average commute to work is 35.82 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Grand Bay is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Grand Bay with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.24% of adults in Grand Bay have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Grand Bay in 2022 was $35,288, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,152 for a family of four. However, Grand Bay contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Grand Bay is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Grand Bay home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grand Bay residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grand Bay include German, English, Irish, European, and French. The most common language spoken in Grand Bay is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
