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Home for the first 18 years
Calais Court · Grand Rapids, MI
I lived in a house on Calais Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the first 18 years of my life. I still visit it when I go home, but after being...
— calais_court, lived here 2000–2018
Read the story →The Lost Cottage
111 Greenbrier Drive Southeast · Grand Rapids, MI
After Mom and Dad split, Dad moved in here - a short walk from where my sisters and I all grew up. He thought it was in our best interest that he be...
— Founder, lived here 2012–2022
Read the story →A perfect storm in Forest Hills
245 Langlois Street Southeast · Grand Rapids, MI
My childhood home. My parents moved themselves, myself and my little sister (still in the womb) here in 2002 before we even had lawn. There are...
— Founder, lived here 2002–2019
Read the story →Grand Rapids by the numbers
- Median rent
- $1,191/mo
- US: $1,348/mo
- Rent plus utilities
- Median home value
- $225,500
- US: $303,400
- Owner-occupied homes
- Median household income
- $65,526/yr
- US: $78,538/yr
- Homes that are rented
- 45%
- US: 35%
- Median age
- 32
- US: 39
- Typical home built
- 1953
- US: 1980
- Median year built
- Take transit to work
- 3%
- US: 4%
- Walk to work
- 4%
- US: 2%
- Work from home
- 12%
- US: 13%
- Population
- 197,768
- US: 332,387,540
For Grand Rapids city, Michigan. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2019–2023). Figures are estimates for the whole city, not any one home or Homage.