Granite Shoals is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,451 people and two associated neighborhoods, Granite Shoals is the 372nd largest community in Texas.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Granite Shoals is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Granite Shoals is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Granite Shoals who work in sales jobs (17.74%), management occupations (10.55%), and office and administrative support (7.58%). Also of interest is that Granite Shoals has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.01% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Granite Shoals has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Granite Shoals has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Granite Shoals than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Granite Shoals may be for you. One downside of living in Granite Shoals is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Granite Shoals, the average commute to work is 32.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Granite Shoals is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The education level of Granite Shoals citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.26% of adults in Granite Shoals have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Granite Shoals in 2022 was $37,710, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,840 for a family of four. However, Granite Shoals contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Granite Shoals is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Granite Shoals home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Granite Shoals residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Granite Shoals also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 46.60% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Granite Shoals include German, Irish, English, French, and Scots-Irish. In addition, Granite Shoals has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.02%). The most common language spoken in Granite Shoals is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
