Cartersville is a medium-sized city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 23,904 people and 16 associated neighborhoods, Cartersville is the 48th largest community in Georgia.Cartersville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cartersville is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cartersville who work in office and administrative support (13.10%), sales jobs (10.65%), and management occupations (10.35%). Also of interest is that Cartersville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.62% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. As is often the case in a small city, Cartersville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In terms of college education, Cartersville is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.28% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Cartersville in 2022 was $37,989, which is wealthy relative to Georgia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $151,956 for a family of four. However, Cartersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cartersville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cartersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cartersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Cartersville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.06% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cartersville include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Cartersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
