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Carey, OH

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Overview


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.

Occupations and Workforce

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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Carey’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Demographics

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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Carey, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

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.

Diversity

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.

The Neighbors

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.

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, 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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.

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, 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.

Getting to Work

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 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.


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