Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Wallace is worth considering.
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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Wallace rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.33% of adults 25 and older in Wallace have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
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.
