Cooper City is a medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 34,106 people and seven associated neighborhoods, Cooper City is the 100th largest community in Florida.
Cooper City home prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, but Cooper City real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Also of interest is that Cooper City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Cooper City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.63% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Because of many things, Cooper City is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Cooper City really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Cooper City perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Cooper City, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.65 minutes every day commuting to work.
The citizens of Cooper City are among the most well-educated in the nation: 49.49% of adults in Cooper City have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cooper City in 2022 was $49,626, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $198,504 for a family of four. However, Cooper City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cooper City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cooper City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cooper City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Cooper City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.32% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cooper City include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Jamaican.
Cooper City also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 25.79%.
The most common language spoken in Cooper City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.