The blazon of the villagecoat of arms is Azure between two Mullets of Four Argent a semi-orb sinister of the same and on the chief of the last four Mullets of Five of the first.
Demographics
Grimentz has a population of 385. Most of the population speaks French as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common and German is the third. There are 2 people who speak Italian. Of the population in the village, 229 or about 56.7% were born in Grimentz and lived there in 2000. There were 65 or 16.1% who were born in the same canton, while 52 or 12.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 58 or 14.4% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 168 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 213 married individuals, 18 widows or widowers and 5 individuals who are divorced. There were 49 households that consist of only one person and 14 households with five or more people. , a total of 159 apartments were permanently occupied, while 856 apartments were seasonally occupied and 32 apartments were empty. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray id:darkgrey value:gray ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:410 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:80 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:16 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark: align:center bar:1850 from:start till:230 text:"230" bar:1860 from:start till:227 text:"227" bar:1870 from:start till:255 text:"255" bar:1880 from:start till:224 text:"224" bar:1888 from:start till:325 text:"325" bar:1900 from:start till:353 text:"353" bar:1910 from:start till:237 text:"237" bar:1920 from:start till:236 text:"236" bar:1930 from:start till:207 text:"207" bar:1941 from:start till:205 text:"205" bar:1950 from:start till:191 text:"191" bar:1960 from:start till:270 text:"270" bar:1970 from:start till:205 text:"205" bar:1980 from:start till:271 text:"271" bar:1990 from:start till:371 text:"371" bar:2000 from:start till:404 text:"404"
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 57.69% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP, the SP and the FDP. In the federal election, a total of 243 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 76.2%.
Economy
There were 216 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.0% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 229. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 10, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 63 of which 14 or were in manufacturing and 49 were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 156. In the tertiary sector; 30 or 19.2% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 16 or 10.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 58 or 37.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 3.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 5 or 3.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 1 was in education. , there were 49 workers who commuted into the village and 29 workers who commuted away. The village is a net importer of workers, with about 1.7 workers entering the village for every one leaving.
Grimentz has an average of 106.7 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives of precipitation. The wettest month is August during which time Grimentz receives an average of of rain or snow. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 10.9 days. The driest month of the year is April with an average of of precipitation over 8.6 days.
Education
In Grimentz about 166 or of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 29 or have completed additional higher education. Of the 29 who completed tertiary schooling, 48.3% were Swiss men, 41.4% were Swiss women. , there were 2 students in Grimentz who came from another village, while 36 residents attended schools outside the village.
