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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Wallace is a tiny village located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 299 people and just one neighborhood, Wallace is the 193rd largest community in Nebraska. Wallace has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Wallace real estate is some of the most expensive in Nebraska, although Wallace house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Wallace, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.36% of Wallace’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wallace is a village of managers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wallace who work in business and financial occupations (12.73%), management occupations (9.09%), and office and administrative support (8.18%).
Of important note, Wallace is also a village of artists. Wallace has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Wallace’s character.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Wallace is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Wallace really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Wallace perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
The village 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, Wallace has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wallace a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
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 16.16 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.
Wallace is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The education level of Wallace citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.88% of adults in Wallace have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Wallace in 2022 was $33,260, which is lower middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,040 for a family of four. However, Wallace contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wallace is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. 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. Wallace also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.60% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wallace include German, Swedish, Irish, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Wallace is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wallace, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 73.6% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Nebraska. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 5 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.5% have Danish ancestry.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wallace are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 66.2% of America'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, 36.7% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 8.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.0%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Wallace, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.6%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (52.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.9%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
