What is the population of Carthage city?

Carthage city has 6,568 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #349 of 1,863 in Texas.

What is the median household income in Carthage city?

Median household income in Carthage city is $44,738 a year, 43% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Carthage city?

Median gross rent is $737 a month and the median home value is $153,100, so rent absorbs about 19.8% of median household income.

Is Carthage city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Carthage city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Carthage, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Carthage, Texas (Carthage, TX — Census place “Carthage city”) is 6,568 residents, ranking #349 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $44,738, the median home is worth $153,100 and median gross rent runs $737 a month. Looking for the Carthage Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Carthage, TX: 75633.

Population: 6,568Carthage city residents
Median household income: $44,738Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $153,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $737Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 66.4%Owner-occupied households

Carthage ZIP codes (Texas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Carthage.

The Carthage TX ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

75633

What the numbers mean in Carthage city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Carthage city median would spend about 19.8% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 3.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 12% of residents and 66.4% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Carthage city, TX in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Carthage city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 6,568 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #349 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 81% of them. The median age here is 39.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Carthage city earn a median of $44,738 a year, 43% below the national figure of $78,538 and 31% below the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 12% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Carthage city is valued at $153,100, 49.5% below the national figure and 15% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $737 a month, 47.6% below the national figure, or roughly $8,844 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 66.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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What is the population of Carthage city?: Carthage city has 6,568 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #349 of 1,863 in Texas.
What is the median household income in Carthage city?: Median household income in Carthage city is $44,738 a year, 43% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Carthage city?: Median gross rent is $737 a month and the median home value is $153,100, so rent absorbs about 19.8% of median household income.
Is Carthage city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Carthage city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Carthage city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.