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.
One downside of living in Cope, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.05 minutes every day commuting to work.
Cope is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Cope 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. 100.00% 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.
Being a small town, Cope does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Cope rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.29% of adults 25 and older in Cope have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Cope in 2018 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.
