Wade is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 647 people and just one neighborhood, Wade is the 452nd largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wade is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wade is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wade who work in sales jobs (13.09%), healthcare (9.95%), and maintenance occupations (9.42%).
There are many members of the armed forces living in Wade. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.
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.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.37% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Wade 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.
The citizens of Wade are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.50% of adults in Wade have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Wade in 2022 was $40,090, 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 $160,360 for a family of four. However, Wade contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wade is a somewhat 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 Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Wade is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wade, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
With 2.7% 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 97.2% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a 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 65.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 41.8% 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 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% 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 (15.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (47.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.