Is Shady Shores a good place to live?
Shady Shores's standout: the median household earns $159K. Overall it grades B, 130th among Texas's 640 graded towns. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 81% of the country and 19% of its land is conserved. Shady Shores’ income of the median household is $159,000, above both the Texas town median ($69,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000). On history, just 59 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Shady Shores's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 90% of U.S. towns.
100% of working residents leave Shady Shores for work
Where Shady Shores’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Shady Shores grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Shady Shores is from typical.
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Moving to Shady Shores: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Shady Shores, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Shady Shores.
Shady Shores has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns, has less no health insurance than most of Texas and sends most of its workers to Dallas and beyond.
Shady Shores earns an A− for health
Its widest gap with Texas is no health insurance: 8.4% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 19.1% statewide. Against the 2,204 U.S. towns with household incomes like Shady Shores’s, it is less healthy than 78%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Against the Texas average, Shady Shores comes out ahead on 14 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 3. 16% of adults say their health is fair or poor in the town.
| Shady Shores | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 39% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 30% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 24% | 19% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 9.9% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | Shady Shores | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 8.4% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.9% | 19.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.2% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Shady Shores’ schools rank ahead of 55% of Texas districts
Public schools: Denton ISD. One of its 3 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. 3 public schools serve Shady Shores, with 1,803 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bettye Myers MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 827 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
A smaller share of working residents in Shady Shores work locally than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
Shady Shores has 113 jobs for its 1,438 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Half the trips to work are shorter than 19 miles. For workers in Shady Shores, the share who work from home is 22%. The top destinations are Dallas (14%), Denton (14%) and Fort Worth (6%). Shady Shores’ typical journey to work is 28 minutes.
| Shady Shores | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 22% | 9.6% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 2.8% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
18.8% of Shady Shores is conserved land
0.2 miles of trail wind through 1 park or preserve. The biggest park or preserve is Big Sandy Park, at 75 acres. Shady Shores’ trail network density comes in at 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Big Sandy Park | — | 75 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Shady Shores: mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 95.8°, hotter than in 97% of U.S. towns; January nights average 34.4°.
In Shady Shores, the January low is 34°F. Snow almost never falls.
| Shady Shores | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 96°F | 95°F | 85°F |
| January low | 34°F | 37°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Natural hazards: moderate risk in Shady Shores, mostly inland flooding
Shady Shores’ FEMA hazard score stands at 56 of 100. Federal aid has come to Shady Shores households in 5 declared disasters; the latest was in 2024. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 45% come from inland flooding and 34% from tornadoes. Since 2015, 3 flood insurance claims have been paid out here.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Shady Shores sells for about $470K
The median property tax bill is $7,311, against $4,232 across Texas, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
For Shady Shores, the median rent is $1,399 a month. In Shady Shores, 93% of households live in a home they own. Also worth knowing: a home in Shady Shores typically sold within 48 days of listing.
| Shady Shores | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 93% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,399 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
AT&T Stadium and 77 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Shady Shores. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaAT&T Stadium
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaCotton Bowl
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaGlobe Life Field
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaTexas Stadium
12 mi Theme parkUniversal Kids Resort
28 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over TexasPhoto credits
AT&T Stadium: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cotton Bowl: Robbiewest88, Public domain · Globe Life Field: Drone To Fly, CC BY 3.0 · Texas Stadium: Allspamme, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Universal Kids Resort: CANthony0125, CC0 · Six Flags Over Texas: Chris Hagerman from New Port Richey, FL, US, CC BY 2.0
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Everything we know about Shady Shores
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Shady Shores
About 5 of every 100 Shady Shores residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
About Shady Shores
Town in Texas, United States
Shady Shores is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,764 at the 2020 census. It is also one of four communities in the Lake Cities.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1932
- Area
- 2.9 sq mi
- Elevation
- 538 ft
- Area code
- 940
Shady Shores’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Shady Shores.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shady Shores | #130 | B | C | — | B | A− |
| Denton | #284 | C | D | C | B | B |
| Corinth | #75 | B+ | D | A− | B | A− |
| Lake Dallas | #131 | B | C− | B+ | B | B− |
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Questions about Shady Shores
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Shady Shores, TX a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Shady Shores grades B overall, better than 59% of U.S. towns and #130 of 640 in Texas. It grades A− for health and B for schools.
Is Shady Shores, TX expensive?
The typical home is worth about $492,000, 66% above the Texas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.