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. The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Granite Shoals has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Granite Shoals a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. 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. Being a small city, Granite Shoals does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Granite Shoals are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.26% of adults in Granite Shoals having a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.
