Coal Center is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,152 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Coal Center is the 668th largest community in Pennsylvania. Coal Center has an unusually 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, Coal Center is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.8% of the Coal Center workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Coal Center is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Coal Center who work in office and administrative support jobs (10.50%), sales jobs (9.61%), and teaching (7.73%).

Coal Center is a very car-oriented town. 97.16% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Coal Center 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. Coal Center 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, Coal Center does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Coal Center Information and Demographics

The education level of Coal Center citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 16.38% of adults in Coal Center have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Coal Center in 2000 was $19,866, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,464 for a family of four.

The people who call Coal Center home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Coal Center is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Coal Center include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, English, Slovak, Hungarian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Coal Center is English.