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.
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 a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Cope, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
As is often the case in a small town, Cope doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
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.
