City safety & data profile
Grand ForksND
Grand Forks, ND is a 57K-resident city in Grand Forks County with a median household income of $63,627.
Grand Forks County, North Dakota. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Grand Forks, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Grand Forks has a population larger than 83% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $249,900, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-04
- 57K
- Population (place)
- Top 17%
- By size
- $63,627
- Median income (place)
- $249,900
- Median home (place)
- 15.5%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Grand Forks
Grand Forks posts a median household income higher than 28% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Grand Forks area.
- Bottom 29%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Grand Forks
Where Grand Forks income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$63,627 Bottom 28% higher than 28% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
The quick read
Reading Grand Forks, ND beyond the headline numbers
Grand Forks sits inside Grand Forks County, North Dakota, at roughly 47.93°N, -97.03°W. Population 57,011, $63,627 median household income. Median home value $249,900, median rent $980. Poverty rate 15.5%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Grand Forks, 3/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.
Poverty in Grand Forks, ND stands at 15.5%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
The median home in Grand Forks costs roughly 3.9 times median household income, below the midpoint for reporting cities, so ownership remains reachable on a typical local wage.
Only 6.5% of Grand Forks workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 23.8% in Grand Forks, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
Grand Forks's median age is 29.6 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Grand Forks from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Grand Forks County): Grand Forks's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 15.5% +25% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 2.4% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 40% |
| Work From Home | 6.5% |
| Public Transit | 1.3% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 1 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Grand Forks?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Grand Forks right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet ND-GRAND-FORKS · Grand Forks
Grand Forks: 2 tagged alerts; lead category NWS weather alert.
- VOL-TRACE 2 on record
- WX-LED 100% weather
- DESK-MIX NOAA
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ San Jose
Tagged alert mix: Grand Forks
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
- Weather Alerts
Weather Alerts
2
What this shows 2 tagged notices on record for Grand Forks.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: San Jose, CA (2 tagged · Δ0)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Grand Forks; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse North Dakota state hubs · Methodology
Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4
Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (2 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
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Frequently Asked Questions 6
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Grand Forks, both outside North Dakota so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside ND (15.5% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside ND ($63,627 here).
Compare Grand Forks with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Grand Forks's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Grand Forks area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Grand Forks against North Dakota peers on any ranking lens. Explore North Dakota
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Grand Forks County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.