Another notable thing is that Granite Shoals is a major vacation destination. Much of the city’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Granite Shoals’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.
In Granite Shoals, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.61 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly 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 23.26% of adults in Granite Shoals having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Granite Shoals in 2022 was $31,485, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,940 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 44.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Granite Shoals include Irish, German, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Granite Shoals is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
