Pocono Pines is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,007 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pocono Pines is the 645th largest community in Pennsylvania.Pocono Pines is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.55% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pocono Pines is a town of professionals, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pocono Pines who work in teaching (31.32%), business and financial occupations (19.62%), and management occupations (16.60%). Also of interest is that Pocono Pines has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 37.07% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Another notable thing is that Pocono Pines is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Pocono Pines’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live. The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Pocono Pines has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pocono Pines a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.08 minutes getting to work every day. Pocono Pines is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In terms of college education, Pocono Pines is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.33% of adults in Pocono Pines have a college degree. The per capita income in Pocono Pines in 2022 was $53,307, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $213,228 for a family of four. However, Pocono Pines contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pocono Pines is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pocono Pines home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pocono Pines residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pocono Pines include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, and Pennsylvania German. The most common language spoken in Pocono Pines is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Italian.
