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Carter County, KY

People
Population26,341B01003
Population, 2020 census26,627P1
Median age41.4B01002
Under 1822.6%B01001
65 and over19.9%B01001
Households10,794B11001
Foreign born1.1%B05002
Money
Median household income$51,235B19013
Median family income$67,787B19113
Per capita income$27,994B19301
Poverty rate19.2%B17001
Unemployment rate5.3%B23025
Civilian labor force10,267B23025
Mean commute (minutes)30.4B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher15.9%B15003
Housing
Housing units12,316B25001
Owner-occupied80.0%B25003
Renters20.0%B25003
Median home value$132,800B25077
Median gross rent$740B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic95.2%B03002
Black0.3%B03002
Hispanic or Latino0.9%B03002
Asian0.3%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.0%B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the state: median household income here is 80% of Kentucky's ($63,726); poverty 19.2% against 16.1%; 0.6% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 9601: 3,262Census Tract 9602: 3,578Census Tract 9603: 2,911Census Tract 9604: 1,934Census Tract 9605: 4,197Census Tract 9606.01: 1,562Census Tract 9606.02: 4,838Census Tract 9607: 4,059GraysonOlive HillZIP 41143: 105 nonprofits, $65,352,227ZIP 41164: 73 nonprofits, $24,331,537ZIP 41181: 5 nonprofits, $228,604ZIP 41146: 5 nonprofits, $65,221ZIP 41132: 1 nonprofitsPopulation (ACS 2020-2024)up to 1,9341,934 to 3,2623,262 to 3,5783,578 to 4,197over 4,197nonprofits (circle size: how many)

Click an area for its page. Circles are FURP records at their ZIP code's center point, sized by how many. Download this map's areas with their census figures: CSV (center points) · GeoJSON (outlines), ready for Datawrapper, Mapshaper or Google My Maps. Outlines: Census TIGER/Line 2026, simplified.

Places in the county

FURP records in Carter County, KY

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits189$89,977,589 revenue (latest return)GRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION ($41,680,734)
Nonprofit contractors5$4,299,639 paid by nonprofitsCARTER NURSING AND REHABILITATION ($2,042,865)
Colleges and schools1541 enrollmentKentucky Christian University (541)
Political committees2CARTER COUNTY CONCERNED CITIZENS, PAC
Form 5500 plan sponsors3842 plansNORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY, INC. (2)
Open Payments recipients57$133,027 industry paymentsSANJIV GUPTA ($61,192)
Patent and trademark owners1520 patents and marksAppalachicanna Co. (3)
Federal award recipients1,039$819,243,986 federal awardsPENNSYLVANIA APPAREL, L.L.C. ($391,316,882)
State business registrations42FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF GRAYSON

Cross-reference: 189 nonprofits for 26,341 residents is 71.8 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $89,977,589 is $3,416 per resident, 16.3% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1CAROL HALL FRALEYPRESIDENT/CEOGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$214,61920194.2x
2BRADLEY CHERRYPRESIDENT/CEOGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$202,67920254.0x
3CHRISTOPHER MOSIERMAINTENANCE LEADMANGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$185,81820253.6x
4JAMES WITHROWMAINTENANCE LEADMANGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$183,47020253.6x
5SHANE MCDAVIDMAINTENANCE LEADMANGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$183,20420253.6x
6MICHAEL R BLEVINSMAINTENANCE LEADMANGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$178,85620243.5x
7RYAN RICECONSTRUCTION LEADMANGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$174,80820253.4x
8JASON PORTERMAINTENANCE LEADMANGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$174,01520253.4x
9KYLE CLEVENGERMGR OF OPERATIONSGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$171,54920233.3x
10BRIAN POLINGMGR OF TECH SERVICESGRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$170,43520233.3x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $51,235.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

Nonprofit contractors: biggest by paid by nonprofits

Colleges and schools: biggest by enrollment

Political committees

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

Open Payments recipients: biggest by industry payments

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

All 8 tracts

Every tract with its figures is in the CSV and GeoJSON downloads.

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 9606.024,838$42,36425.2%34.6
Census Tract 96054,197$48,98415.0%38.3
Census Tract 96074,059$45,04819.0%46.2
Census Tract 96023,578$59,09717.1%50.3
Census Tract 96013,262$37,63234.3%35.1
Census Tract 96032,911$64,8998.4%41.9
Census Tract 96041,934$56,43316.9%41.9
Census Tract 9606.011,562$57,8418.8%46.4

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0