Population & Demographics
Garden Grove, CA
Garden Grove is home to 170,964 people. Explore its demographics, housing, and economy — plus how its 85,918 resident workers commute each day.
170,964 residents
Median age 40.2 · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year (2024).
Garden Grove population & demographics
Who lives in Garden Grove — population, age, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.
Race & ethnicity in Garden Grove
How Garden Grove breaks down by race and ethnicity — each bar is that group’s share of the population, from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2024).
Race across Garden Grove
Each dot is a group of people, placed in their 2020 Census block and colored by race or ethnicity — the pattern shows where groups live across Garden Grove.
These figures are for Garden Grove proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.
How Garden Grove commutes
Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.
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How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.
Garden Grove
85,918 commutes, one dot at a time
Garden Grove
Where 85,918 workers commute
Where residents work
Top destinations for people who live in Garden Grove, by worker count.
Who commutes in
Top origin places for workers who travel into Garden Grove.
Top industries
The sectors that employ Garden Grove’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.
Internet options for Garden Grove
The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.
FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).