Vilas is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 6,269 people and two associated neighborhoods, Vilas is the 138th largest community in North Carolina.

A relatively large number of people in Vilas telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.10% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Because of many things, Vilas 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, Vilas really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Vilas 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 town 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, Vilas has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Vilas a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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 30.27 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Vilas doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

In terms of college education, Vilas is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.92% of adults in Vilas have a college degree.

The per capita income in Vilas in 2022 was $32,140, 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 $128,560 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 French.

The most common language spoken in Vilas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.