Cope is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 33 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cope is the 296th largest community in South Carolina. Much of the housing stock in Cope was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.Cope is a blue-collar town, with 81.82% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cope is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cope who work in community and social services (18.18%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%). Cope’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe 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, Cope has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cope a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. In Cope, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.05 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Cope is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Cope isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more. Cope 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, the citizens of Cope rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.29% of adults 25 and older in Cope have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Cope in 2022 was $40,964, which is wealthy relative to South Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $163,856 for a family of four. However, Cope contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cope is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cope home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cope residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cope include European, German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian. The most common language spoken in Cope is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
