 About 21.9% of families and 23.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 28.4% of those under age 18 and 3.1% of those age 65 or over.Vader is the only one of nine incorporated areas in Lewis County to vote for Democrat John F. Kerry in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election.The Vader precinct was one of only two in the county (the other in an unincorporated area) to vote for Kerry.