Kindergarten to Grade 12 is available at Tantalus School in Carmacks. The school has a gymnasium, library, and computer lab. Like all Yukon schools, the core curriculum (80 percent) follows the British Columbia Ministry of Education curriculum, and students are eligible to write B.C. departmental exams. Currently, a new school is to be built.
The Carmacks Campus of Yukon College provides adult education programs to the community. The local campus staff work closely with the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, developing and delivering training courses and programs designed to enhance local administrative capacity. Other programs at the campus include academic upgrading, employability skills, craft and small business, computer skills, first aid, accounting, pre-trades and trades, and youth employment training.
The Community Health Centre operates clinics from Monday to Friday and provides local health care. The centre also provides after-hours emergency service and ambulance dispatch. Occasional dental clinics are offered by dentists from Whitehorse.
Policing is provided by an RCMP detachment with one sergeant and two constables.
Other community social services include a Yukon Government Health and Social Services social worker, a Yukon Housing Corporation part-time office, a safe house for women and children, and a daycare centre. The Yukon Family Services Association provides itinerant services out of Whitehorse. Probation services are also provided from Whitehorse.
The Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation offers social services to its members, including counseling, social assistance, adult care, and homecare. Native courtworker services are administered through the Northern Tutchone Council in Pelly Crossing.
The Carmacks municipal government and the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation provide municipal services.
Fire and ambulance services are provided by a volunteer service. There are two water tanks, one in town and one across the river in the First Nation settlement.
The Yukon Electrical Co. Ltd. supplies electric power by transmission line from the Whitehorse dam. There is a local auxiliary diesel generator.
Post office service and mail pick-up is available three times a week. Public local high-speed Internet DSL access is also offered in the community.
Banking services are available twice a week.
Public library services are available through the Carmacks Branch Library.
Road access to Whitehorse and Dawson City is by the paved Klondike Highway. Secondary road access is the Robert Campbell Highway, which goes to Faro and Ross River. Distance to Whitehorse is 175 km, generally a drive of two and a half hours.
Territorial Agent services are provided through the Yukon Housing office in Carmacks. These services include providing information and forms, accepting various applications and issuing licences and permits.
Forestry and land use services are provided through the Government of Yukon and the Little Salmon/ Carmacks First Nation administration office.
A small airstrip is located approximately 12 km north of town on the Robert Campbell Highway. The airstrip is only capable of handling small fixed-wing and helicopter traffic. A separate helicopter pad is located on the outskirts of town. Floatplane traffic is accommodated on three lakes near the community, and at a dock on the Yukon River across from the RCMP detachment. Formalized service for this traffic is not available.
Carmacks has one B & B business, a hotel/restaurant/general store complex, and a second restaurant that offer year-round services. Services at the hotel complex include accommodation, restaurant, laundromat, bar and off-sales, general store with grocery/bakery/limited hardware/video rental departments, and a gas bar. The town also has two full-service gas stations that supply diesel, propane, and mechanical services year-round. Several Whitehorse-based companies offer heating oil delivery service.
Trucking and heavy equipment services are available through the First Nation economic development corporation and several private companies.
