- 10% population growth between 1990 and 2000
- Population projected to double by 2020, from 12,000 to over 23,000
- Over half of Grass Valley’s population growth was among persons 45 years or older
- No significant changes in household size/composition, except for increase in families w/children and decrease in married couples
- Median income in Grass Valley is about 62% of countywide median (about $28,000 in 2000 compared to nearly $56,000 countywide)
- Poverty rate in Grass Valley (15%) is nearly twice the countywide rate (8%)
- 57% of households are renters, a slight decline from 59% in 1990
- Multifamily housing accounts for 39% of all housing
- Number of mobilehomes doubled, to 9% of housing stock
- Nearly 50% of housing stock is more than 30 years old
- Vacancy rate of less than 1% for ownership housing and less than 2% for rental housing, a decline from nearly 4% in 1990
- Overcrowding doubled to nearly 300 households, affecting mostly renters
- Median home price (March 2003) of $275,000
- Median market rate rent (April 2003) of $766
- Overpayment increased slightly among renters (1990 – 2000) but more than doubled among homeowners, mostly moderate-income homeowners
- Major employers in Grass Valley are concentrated in retail, services, and government
