Wallace is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 3,440 people and three associated neighborhoods, Wallace is the 231st largest community in North Carolina.Wallace is a blue-collar town, with 40.56% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wallace is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wallace who work in teaching (8.51%), sales jobs (7.99%), and healthcare (6.44%). Also of interest is that Wallace has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Wallace 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. Wallace has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wallace than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wallace may be for you. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Wallace spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.59 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be. Being a small town, Wallace does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Wallace with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.33% of adults in Wallace have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Wallace in 2022 was $28,395, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,580 for a family of four. However, Wallace contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wallace is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wallace home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wallace residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Wallace also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.28% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wallace include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Palestinian. The most common language spoken in Wallace is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
