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Carey, ID

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Overview


Carey is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 688 people and just one neighborhood, Carey is the 107th largest community in Idaho.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Carey is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.27% 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 sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carey who work in office and administrative support (9.28%), maintenance occupations (7.59%), and management occupations (5.70%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Carey is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Carey a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Carey has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Carey’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Carey who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.20% of the adults in Carey have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Carey in 2022 was $22,118, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,472 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. The greatest number of Carey residents report their race to be White. Carey also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 49.46% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Carey include English, German, Egyptian, Irish, and European.

In addition, Carey has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (29.49%).

The most common language spoken in Carey is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 1 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.4% of America.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.2% 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.

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 98.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 41.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 68.8% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Arab ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 73.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.2% 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 74.1% 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, 52.0% 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 19.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (13.3%), and 8.9% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 50.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Arabic.

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 Carey, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (51.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (3.4%), among others. In addition, 31.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (10.8%) . 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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