Wade is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 639 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 office and administrative support (13.99%), sales jobs (10.88%), and maintenance occupations (8.81%).
Wade is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Wade, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.54% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Wade has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wade a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Wade doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Wade with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.11% of adults in Wade have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wade in 2018 was $28,133, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,532 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 English, Irish, German, European, and Slavic.
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.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 98.1% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
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 73.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.3% 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, 35.3% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 19.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Wade, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
