About Shoals

Shoals is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 797 people and just one neighborhood, Shoals is the 350th largest community in Indiana.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Shoals is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.8% of the Shoals workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Shoals is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shoals who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.31%), sales jobs (7.84%), and management occupations (5.97%).

Also of interest is that Shoals has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Shoals is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Shoals Information and Demographics

Shoals ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.36% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Shoals in 2000 was $14,234, which is low income relative to Indiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $56,936 for a family of four.

The people who call Shoals home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Shoals is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shoals include German, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Shoals is English.