Carle Place is a somewhat small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 5,005 people and just one neighborhood, Carle Place is the 324th largest community in New York.
Carle Place home prices are not only among the most expensive in New York, but Carle Place real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Carle Place is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.91% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Carle Place is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carle Place who work in healthcare (12.36%), office and administrative support (12.14%), and management occupations (11.63%).
Of important note, Carle Place is also a town of artists. Carle Place has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Carle Place’s character.
Also of interest is that Carle Place has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Carle Place telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.75% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
In addition, Carle Place is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness'. But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.
Because of many things, Carle Place 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, Carle Place really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Carle Place 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.
In Carle Place, a lot of people use the train to get to work every day though Carle Place is a relatively small town. Those that ride the train are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
The education level of Carle Place ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Carle Place, 49.16% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Carle Place in 2022 was $66,627, which is wealthy relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $266,508 for a family of four.
Carle Place is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Carle Place home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carle Place residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Carle Place also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.07% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Carle Place include Italian, Irish, German, English, and Portuguese.
Carle Place also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 25.44%.
The most common language spoken in Carle Place is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
Most neighborhoods have a mixture of ages of homes in them, from new to old, but this neighborhood stands out due to its concentration of residential real estate built in one time frame: from 1940 through 1969, generally considered older, well-established homes. This was a busy time in America for home construction. After the end of World War II, as GIs came home, bought newly built homes on the edges of cities with the help of the GI Bill, and began their families. This housing era generally coincides with the 'Baby Boom' generation (1945 - 1964), and many baby boomers grew up in homes built in this era. But what is so interesting about the neighborhood, is that an incredible 82.0% of the homes here were built in this era. So when you walk its streets or drive through, this neighborhood has a look and feel that harkens to that era in American life, a very important slice of Americana.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 23.9% have Italian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Carle Place are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 87.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.6% 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 76.5% 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, 56.5% 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 15.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.0%), and 13.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
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 English, spoken by 59.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Chinese.
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 Carle Place, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (23.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Asian roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (11.9%), along with some South American ancestry residents (7.6%), among others. In addition, 25.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (68.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (8.5%) and 7.9% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.