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.
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.
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 1 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.4% of America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. 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, each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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%).
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 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.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. 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.