Wadesboro is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,965 people and three associated neighborhoods, Wadesboro is the 156th largest community in North Carolina.When you are in Wadesboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.67% of Wadesboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wadesboro is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wadesboro who work in sales jobs (9.85%), healthcare (9.30%), and food service (7.77%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.82% 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. 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!) Wadesboro 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. Wadesboro has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wadesboro than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wadesboro may be for you. Wadesboro is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Wadesboro are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.91% of adults in Wadesboro have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Wadesboro in 2022 was $26,380, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,520 for a family of four. However, Wadesboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wadesboro is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wadesboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wadesboro residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Wadesboro include English, German, African, Irish, and French Canadian. The most common language spoken in Wadesboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Spanish.
