Wade is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 644 people and just one neighborhood, Wade is the 452nd largest community in North Carolina.
10.67% of the workforce is employed in the armed forces, making the military a huge focus of life in Wade. Even though it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy. The Manufacturing and Healthcare industries respectively employ 18.32% and 15.35% of the civilian workforce.
Of important note, Wade is also a town of artists. Wade has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Wade’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.56% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Wade has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Wade has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wade than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wade may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Wade doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Wade citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.33% of adults 25 and older in Wade have a college degree.
The per capita income in Wade in 2022 was $31,825, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,300 for a family of four. However, Wade contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wade is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wade home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wade residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wade include German, English, Irish, Slavic, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Wade is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
With 3.6% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 98.1% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wade are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 37.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Wade, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.