Cochranville is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,540 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Cochranville is the 396th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cochranville is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cochranville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cochranville who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.53%), sales jobs (10.16%), and management occupations (6.87%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Cochranville work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 7.31% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

One downside of living in Cochranville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cochranville, the average commute to work is 31.63 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Cochranville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Cochranville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.02% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Cochranville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Cochranville Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Cochranville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 21.46% of adults in Cochranville have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cochranville in 2000 was $21,299, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,196 for a family of four.

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

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