Cope is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 32 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cope is the 296th largest community in South Carolina. Cope has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cope is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 81.82% of the Cope workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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%). Overall, Cope’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cope has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cope has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cope than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cope may be for you. One downside of living in Cope is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cope, the average commute to work is 32.05 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Cope is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Cope is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Cope has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well. Being a small town, Cope does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Cope with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.29% of adults in Cope have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. 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.
