Grovetown is a medium-sized city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 17,843 people and six associated neighborhoods, Grovetown is the 75th largest community in Georgia. Grovetown has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Grovetown, where the median household income is $85,660.00.
The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Grovetown, employing 6.68% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Healthcare and Retail industries employ 16.99% and 9.90% of the civilian workforce, respectively.
Also of interest is that Grovetown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.39% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Overall, Grovetown’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small city, Grovetown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Grovetown is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.20% of adults in Grovetown have a college degree.
The per capita income in Grovetown in 2022 was $37,553, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,212 for a family of four. However, Grovetown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Grovetown is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Grovetown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grovetown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Grovetown also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.87% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Grovetown include English, German, Italian, Irish, and African.
The most common language spoken in Grovetown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.