Because of many things, Vilas is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Vilas a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Vilas has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Vilas’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
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!) Vilas 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. Vilas has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Vilas than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Vilas may be for you.
One downside of living in Vilas is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Vilas, the average commute to work is 30.57 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Vilas 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 population of Vilas is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 35.01% of adults in Vilas have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Vilas in 2022 was $35,520, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,080 for a family of four. However, Vilas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Vilas home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vilas residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Vilas include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Vilas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
