Pocono Lake is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,021 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pocono Lake is the 382nd largest community in Pennsylvania.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pocono Lake is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pocono Lake is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pocono Lake who work in sales jobs (11.91%), teaching (10.22%), and office and administrative support (9.32%). Also of interest is that Pocono Lake 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 Pocono Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.45% 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. Another notable thing is that Pocono Lake is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town. 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!) Pocono Lake 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. Pocono Lake has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pocono Lake than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pocono Lake may be for you. In Pocono Lake, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.79 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit. Despite being a small town, Pocono Lake has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.The overall education level of Pocono Lake citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.07% of adults in Pocono Lake have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%. The per capita income in Pocono Lake in 2022 was $43,306, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $173,224 for a family of four. However, Pocono Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pocono Lake is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pocono Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pocono Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pocono Lake also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.71% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pocono Lake include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and Hungarian. The most common language spoken in Pocono Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
