About Wadesville

Wadesville is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 3,413 people and just one neighborhood, Wadesville is the 179th largest community in Indiana.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wadesville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.6% of the Wadesville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Wadesville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wadesville who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.54%), sales jobs (9.10%), and healthcare (6.24%).

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

Because of many things, Wadesville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Wadesville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Wadesville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Wadesville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Wadesville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.93% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Wadesville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Wadesville Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Wadesville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 14.96%: 16.10% of adults 25 and older in Wadesville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wadesville in 2000 was $20,263, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,052 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Wadesville is English.