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!) Valdese 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. Valdese has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Valdese than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Valdese may be for you.
Being a small town, Valdese does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Valdese citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 35.18% of adults in Valdese have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Valdese in 2018 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.
