Grand Rapids, Michigan

The development read on Grand Rapids, from verified US Census data and the live Cividian layers. Every figure below is sourced; anything unverified is marked pending, never estimated.

59/100

Middle heuristic band

Cividian Score, 73% of the model weighting with supplied inputs; this is not confidence or predictive accuracy.

Population

197,768

Median income

$65,526

Median home value

$225,500

Housing vacancy

6.1%

Source: US Census ACS 5-year 2023.

Building momentum

801 residential units permitted in 2025 (vs 859 in 2024).

Source: US Census Building Permits Survey, place-level.

Cividian Score layers

people: 58money: 68land: 50access: pendingpower: pendingactivity: 61

People, money, and land come from Census; access and activity are live; power is Cividian field intelligence. Pending layers are excluded from the score, never defaulted.

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