Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Granite Shoals has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Granite Shoals B−; getting around on foot earns it D. Granite Shoals has 413 jobs for 2,218 working residents. Only 4% work in Granite Shoals; the top destination outside it is Marble Falls (20%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Granite Shoals apart on work
Granite Shoals workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 40 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 307 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Granite Shoals makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Granite Shoals are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Granite Shoals residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
Granite Shoals is a place people come home to
There are 413 jobs based in Granite Shoals, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Granite Shoals has about 3,700 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The jobs in Granite Shoals pay better than its residents’ jobs
71% of the jobs based in Granite Shoals pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 54% of the jobs Granite Shoals residents hold. 79% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Granite Shoals. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Granite Shoals’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Granite Shoals is better than 55% of U.S. towns, #274 of 642 in Texas. The poverty rate holds Granite Shoals’ grade up (2.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Granite Shoals could be anywhere from C to A−.
From Granite Shoals, about 40 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Granite Shoals workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,124 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Goods, not services: 52% of the jobs in Granite Shoals
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Granite Shoals, 2014 → 2024: 273 → 413. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Granite Shoals’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Granite Shoals on a workday
On a workday 2,130 residents head out to work, 88 work right here, and 325 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Granite Shoals on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The distance from Granite Shoals to work
About 33% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Where the trip to work from Granite Shoals ends
Where Granite Shoals clocks in
20% of workers
12% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Few in Granite Shoals walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Granite Shoals is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns, #568 of 642 in Texas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,483 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.9% of Granite Shoals households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Granite Shoals’ commuters take a bus or train.
Granite Shoals next to U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,400: 1,776th of 3,612 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Haslet TX | 5,267 | $169K | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Garden Ridge TX | 4,371 | $177K | 0.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,774 | Brooktrails CA | 4,398 | $116K | 5.4% | 4.6% | 3% | B− |
| 1,775 | Swansboro NC | 4,174 | $114K | 14.1% | 2.7% | 15% | B− |
| 1,776 | Granite Shoals TX | 5,498 | $78K | 2.4% | 4.3% | 4% | B− |
| 1,777 | Lexington Township OH | 4,944 | $65K | 13.8% | 2.1% | 5% | B− |
| 1,778 | Hicksville Township OH | 4,936 | $65K | 3.0% | 5.1% | 28% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,612 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Granite Shoals, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Granite Shoals and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Horseshoe Bay (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Granite Shoals workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Shoals | – | B− | D | 40 min | $78,042 |
| Horseshoe Bay | 5% | B+ | C− | 22 min | $96,794 |
| Highland Haven | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Highland Haven: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Granite Shoals’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Granite Shoals: questions
What is the median household income in Granite Shoals?
$78,042 (±$23,120) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Granite Shoals?
2.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Granite Shoals?
40 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Granite Shoals work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marble Falls (20%, 6 mi), Austin (12%, 42 mi), Horseshoe Bay (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Granite Shoals walkable?
Granite Shoals is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Granite Shoals without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Granite Shoals, from the people who make the trip.
More of Granite Shoals
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.