The town 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, Valdese has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Valdese a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Valdese does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Valdese are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.18% of adults in Valdese have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Valdese in 2022 was $40,002, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,008 for a family of four. However, Valdese contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Valdese home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Valdese residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Valdese include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Valdese is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.
