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Carterville, MO

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Overview


Carterville is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,852 people and just one neighborhood, Carterville is the 288th largest community in Missouri.

Carterville real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Carterville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Carterville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.39% of Carterville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Carterville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carterville who work in office and administrative support (14.45%), sales jobs (9.55%), and food service (5.94%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Carterville is worth considering.

Carterville is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Carterville have a very low rate of college education: just 6.73% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Carterville in 2022 was $18,402, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,608 for a family of four. However, Carterville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Carterville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Carterville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carterville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Carterville include German, Irish, English, French, and Dutch.

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

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 Carterville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 Carterville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.3% of U.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, 29.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.3%), and 20.4% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Carterville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report English roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (40.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (5.2%) . 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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