Is Grant Township a good place to live?
Grant Township’s best subject grade is a B+ for the outdoors; its weakest is a C− for health. Grant Township’s average trip to work is 33 minutes, against 25 minutes in Michigan’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. The biggest place to walk is Port Huron State Game Area, 1,370 acres with 2.6 miles of trail. Grant Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Grant Township stand out
Where Grant Township beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Grant Township for work
Where Grant Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Grant Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Grant Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Grant Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Grant Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Grant Township.
Residents of Grant Township are less healthy than 77% of U.S. towns
Grant Township beats the Michigan average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 18% of adults smoke cigarettes in Grant Township, above both Michigan’s towns (15%) and U.S. towns (14%). 16% of Grant Township adults report frequent physical distress.
| Grant Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 15% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 36% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 27% | 23% |
| What stands out | Grant Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 10.4% | 8.1% |
| More smokers | 18.4% | 14.6% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.4% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Grant Township’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Grant Township for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Port Huron (14%), Marysville (5%) and Detroit (5%). Half commute less than 31 miles.
| Grant Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 5.9% | 8% |
| Median household income | $87,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 9.2% | 10% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Grant Township faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 73% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Grant Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Grant Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. The July high in Grant Township is 81°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Grant Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 8.3% | 4.4% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Port Huron State Game Area | 2.6 mi | 1,370 |
| 2. Grant Township Park | 0.3 mi | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Grant Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Grant Township
About 2 of every 100 Grant Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Michigan.
About Grant Township
Civil township in Michigan, United States
Grant Township is a civil township of St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the township population was 1,829.
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- Area
- 30 sq mi
- Elevation
- 728 ft
Grant Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Grant Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Township | — | — | B | — | C+ | C− |
| Clyde Township | #458 | C+ | B+ | — | C+ | B |
| Burtchville Township | #345 | B | A− | — | C+ | B |
| Greenwood Township | — | — | B− | — | A | C− |
| Worth Township | #632 | D | C+ | — | A− | C− |
| Fremont Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Grant Township and Greenwood Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Grant Township, Clyde Township, Burtchville Township, Greenwood Township and Worth Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Fremont Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Grant Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Grant Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Grant Township, MI expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.