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Carthage, IN

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Overview


Carthage is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 917 people and just one neighborhood, Carthage is the 336th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Carthage was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Carthage real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Carthage house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Carthage, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.59% of Carthage’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Carthage is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Carthage who work in food service (7.41%), management occupations (6.67%), and maintenance occupations (6.30%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Carthage, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.21 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Carthage does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Carthage has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.29% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Carthage in 2018 was $20,812, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,248 for a family of four. However, Carthage contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Carthage home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carthage residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Carthage include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Carthage is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.

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 Carthage, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.6% of this neighborhood's residents have English 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 Carthage are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.7% 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 51.5% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 41.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 36.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.7%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Carthage, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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