Carey is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,506 people and just one neighborhood, Carey is the 341st largest community in Ohio. Carey has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Carey is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.02% of the Carey workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Carey is a village of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carey who work in sales jobs (9.80%), management occupations (8.47%), and teaching (7.48%).
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.
Overall, Carey’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The citizens of Carey are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.54% of adults in Carey have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Carey in 2022 was $29,700, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,800 for a family of four. However, Carey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Carey include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Carey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Laotian.
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.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.8% of the neighborhoods in OH. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.
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 middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.8% 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 72.2% 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, 38.0% 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 34.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 9.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 Carey, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (49.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.