Inver Grove Heights is a medium-sized city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 35,701 people and seven associated neighborhoods, Inver Grove Heights is the 28th largest community in Minnesota.Inver Grove Heights is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Inver Grove Heights is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Inver Grove Heights who work in office and administrative support (12.63%), management occupations (10.98%), and sales jobs (10.33%). Also of interest is that Inver Grove Heights has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 19.05% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The citizens of Inver Grove Heights are among the most well-educated in the nation: 42.32% of adults in Inver Grove Heights have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Inver Grove Heights in 2022 was $51,175, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $204,700 for a family of four. However, Inver Grove Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Inver Grove Heights is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Inver Grove Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Inver Grove Heights residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Inver Grove Heights also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Inver Grove Heights include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Swedish. The most common language spoken in Inver Grove Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.
