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We would like to provide the residents of  Grand Rapids  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Grand Rapids Home page. The Grand Rapids Home page provides as much information as possible on Grand Rapids. Knowing Grand Rapids’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Grand Rapids’s Home page, you will also find Grand Rapids’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Grand Rapids has a population of 615273. 49% of Grand Rapids’s inhabitants are Male, and 51 are female. 38% of Grand Rapids is married and 55% own their own home. The Average Home price is $155,388, and the average rent is $947. Household median income in Grand Rapids is $51,333, and the individual median income is $26,756. Grand Rapids’s Ethnic is the following: White(65.5%), Black(18.1%), Hispanic(16.3%), Multiple(7.9%), Other(5.5%), Asian(2.6%), Native(0.4%).


Grand Rapids is a city and county seat of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,917 which ranks it as the second most-populated city in the state after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,087,592 and a combined statistical area population of 1,383,918.Situated along the Grand River approximately 25 miles (40 km) east of Lake Michigan, it is the economic and cultural hub of West Michigan, as well as one of the fastest-growing cities in the Midwest.


A historic furniture manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is home to five of the world's leading office furniture companies and is nicknamed "Furniture City". Other nicknames include "River City" and more recently, "Beer City" (the latter given by USA Today and adopted by the city as a brand). The city and surrounding communities are economically diverse, based in the health care, information technology, automotive, aviation, and consumer goods manufacturing industries, among others. Grand Rapids was the childhood home of U.S.


President Gerald Ford, who is buried with his wife Betty on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in the city. The city's Gerald R. Ford International Airport and Gerald R. Ford Freeway are named after him.


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