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Welcome to Cartersville Georgia Real Estate!
Cartersville Georgia is a beautiful place in the Northwest corner of Georgia. Homes in Cartersville are some of the best deals that you can find on houses anywhere. There are an abundant amount of foreclosures and short sales, as Cartersville has been affected by the economy crisis just like the rest of the nation.
About Cartersville
This beautiful town has a population of nearly 20,000 people. There are four schools in Cartersville, 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high school. The area covered is nearly 24 square miles, so Cartersville has decent size in this part of Georgia. Most of the people who live in and work in Cartersville are involved in tourism, or are manufacturing. Tourism is popular in Cartersville because it is such a beautiful historic place.
Cartersville is just up the I-75 from Atlanta Georgia about 40 miles. On your way to Cartersville from Atlanta you will go through Smyrna, Marietta, Kennesaw, and then arrive in beautiful Cartersville. The Cartersville airport is also available, it is a smaller one runway airport.
The Bartow County Library is an excellent library in Cartersville which is also a great community center. There are several meeting rooms in the library, and the library itself is always kept very up to date.
Cartersville covers two different zip codes, for the 30120 and 30121. So if you are searching for homes for sale in 30121 or 30120 this is the correct place to find those homes!
Statistics
People in Cartersville make just about the Georgian average of $45K a year. Most of the houses or condos in are valued about $9,000 above the average at $171,000.
Cartersville is mainly a white population, with 3/4 of the residents, the remainder is about 10% black, 10% hispanic, 1% asian, and then other races fill in the rest.
Cartersville has a very educated population as well, 3/4 of the population has a high school degree, and another 1/4 has their college degree. 7% after that has a graduate degree of sorts.
Cartersville is like most of Georgia, very Republican.
- Booth Western Art Museum. Some people say that The Booth is the second largest art museum in Georgia. It houses the largest permanent exhibition space for Western art in the country. It is also a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
- Etowah Indian Mounds is an archaeological Native American site.
- Tellus Science Museum, is a Smithsonian Institute Affiliate and features the first digital planetarium in North Georgia.
- The world’s first outdoor Coca-Cola sign, painted in 1894, is located in downtown Cartersville on Young Brothers Pharmacy’s wall.
- Rose Lawn, a house museum, is the former home of noted evangelist Sam Jones, for whom the Union Gospel Tabernacle in Nashville was built, later to become the Grand Ol’ Opry.
- The Bartow History Museum.