Carey is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 703 people and just one neighborhood, Carey is the 107th largest community in Idaho.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Carey is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 47.12% of the Carey workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Carey is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Carey who work in management occupations (8.85%), office and administrative support (8.19%), and maintenance occupations (7.30%).
Also of interest is that Carey has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Carey 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, Carey really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Carey 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.
One downside of living in Carey is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Carey, the average commute to work is 32.76 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Carey with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.71% of adults in Carey have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Carey in 2022 was $19,781, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,124 for a family of four. However, Carey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Carey is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Carey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Carey, accounting for 50.67% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Carey residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Carey include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and British.
In addition, Carey has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.31%).
The most common language spoken in Carey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 1 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 99.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.5% 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.
Furthermore, it used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Carey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.2% 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 56.8% 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, 45.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.2%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 58.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (41.3%).
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 Carey, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (46.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report German roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 20.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.