CarterTX
A town of 1,738, settled in 1888.
Is Carter a good place to live?
The best of Carter’s subject grades is a B+ for cost of living; the weakest is a D− for walkability. Carter has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Carter for work
Where Carter’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Carter grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Carter is from typical.
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Moving to Carter: who provides what
Carter is unincorporated, so Parker County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Carter.
Most of Carter’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.0 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Carter for work: only 1% work in town. The town’s typical journey to work comes in at 37 minutes. Also worth knowing: among residents locally, 20% live below the poverty line, above both the Texas town median (12%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). For half of commuters, work is under 26 miles away.
| Carter | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 37 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 20% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $103,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.6% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Fewer young adults than Texas overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 16% of residents (24% statewide). Four-year graduates: 28% of adults 25 and older here, 34% across Texas. In Carter, the age of the median resident is 37.8 years.
| Carter | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 37.8 years | 35.9 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 16% | 14% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 28% | 23% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 47% and 70% women
The Census survey reached too few of Carter’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±11.4 points. Across Texas, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Carter | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 15.9% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.8% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.1% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.4% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 21.9% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 16.2% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 2% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 10.5% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.2% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.3% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33.4% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 27.8% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6.4% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22.4% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 5.8% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
In Carter, expect mild winters and hot summers
Carter’s midsummer high is 95°F, where Texas’ towns sit at 95°F and U.S. towns at 85°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Carter faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by tornadoes
Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 66% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in Carter, 35% come from tornadoes and 25% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Carter is less healthy than three in five U.S. towns
On the CDC’s 31 measures, Carter is ahead of Texas on 5 and behind on 5. A fifth of Carter adults binge drink. In Carter, 73% of adults had a checkup this year, and 25% have been diagnosed with depression.
| Carter | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 17% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 74% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| What stands out | Carter | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 14.5% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 14.9% | 19.1% |
| More smokers | 16.1% | 12.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in Carter sells for about $450K
Among households in Carter, 93% live in a home they own.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0% of Carter is conserved land
1.9 miles of trail. Carter’s trail network density stands at 0.3 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Carter
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Carter
About 7 of every 100 Carter residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
About Carter
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Carter is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Parker County, Texas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. As of the 2020 census, Carter had a population of 1,637. It is in the northern part of the county, spread over several low ridges and valleys draining south to the Clear Fork of the Trinity River and north to Walnut Creek, a tributary of the West Fork of the Trinity River. Texas State Highway 51 passes through the east side of the CDP, leading northeast 5 miles (8 km) to Springtown and southwest 10 miles (16 km) to Weatherford, the Parker county seat. Fort Worth is 29 miles (47 km) to the southeast.
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- Area
- 6.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,129 ft
Questions about Carter
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Carter, TX expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $316,000, 7% above the Texas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.