About Cooper City

Cooper City is a medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 27,685 people and just one neighborhood, Cooper City is the 98th largest community in Florida.

Cooper City is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 87.37% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Cooper City is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cooper City who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.19%), sales jobs (13.10%), and management occupations (12.49%).

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.

In addition, Cooper City is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Cooper City is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Cooper City's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Residents of Cooper City by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 98.7% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented city. While Cooper City may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

As is often the case in a small city, Cooper City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Cooper City Information and Demographics

The education level of Cooper City citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 38.17% of adults in Cooper City have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cooper City in 2000 was $27,474, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,896 for a family of four. However, Cooper City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cooper City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cooper City is White, followed by Asian. 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 14.89% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Cooper City include Italian, Irish, German, English, Polish, and Russian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Cooper City's cultural character, accounting for 16.92% of the city's population.

The most common language spoken in Cooper City is English. Some people also speak Spanish.