Fort Gratiot is a somewhat small township located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 11,460 people and five associated neighborhoods, Fort Gratiot is the 104th largest community in Michigan.Fort Gratiot is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-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%). The township is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Fort Gratiot has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fort Gratiot a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.In terms of college education, Fort Gratiot is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 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.
