Carthage is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 925 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.
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%).
In Carthage, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.21 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Carthage does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Carthage ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.29% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Carthage in 2022 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.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.2% of American neighborhoods.
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.
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.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
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.
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.