Wake Forest is a medium-sized town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 29,422 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Wake Forest is the 24th largest community in North Carolina.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wake Forest is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wake Forest is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wake Forest who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.26%), management occupations (13.08%), and sales jobs (11.46%).

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

One downside of living in Wake Forest, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.89 minutes every day commuting to work.

Residents of Wake Forest by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 98.3% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Wake Forest may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

Wake Forest Information and Demographics

The citizens of Wake Forest are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.78% of adults in Wake Forest have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wake Forest in 2000 was $24,888, 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 $99,552 for a family of four.

Wake Forest is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wake Forest home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Wake Forest is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wake Forest include German, English, Irish, Italian, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Wake Forest is English. Some people also speak Spanish.