Carmi (pronounced Car-my) is a city in and the county seat of White County, Illinois, United States, along the Little Wabash River, where the population was 5,240 at the 2010 census.

[citation needed] Carmi post office has been in operation since 1817,[3] and then a WPA oil on canvas mural called Service to the Farmer by Davenport Griffen was first displayed there in 1939.

[5] As of the census[9] of 2000, there were 5,422 people, 2,390 households, and 1,477 families residing in the city.

There were 2,667 housing units at an average density of 1,076.1 per square mile (415.5/km2).

35.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.