Cokeburg is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 620 people and just one neighborhood, Cokeburg is the 939th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Cokeburg was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cokeburg is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cokeburg is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cokeburg who work in healthcare suport services (11.82%), office and administrative support (9.22%), and sales jobs (8.65%).
Of important note, Cokeburg is also a borough of artists. Cokeburg has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cokeburg’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Cokeburg telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.21% 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.
Overall, Cokeburg’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The borough is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cokeburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cokeburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Cokeburg, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.35 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small borough, Cokeburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Cokeburg are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.16% of adults in Cokeburg having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cokeburg in 2022 was $27,142, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,568 for a family of four. However, Cokeburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cokeburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cokeburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cokeburg include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Cokeburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 4.2% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cokeburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 71.0% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Cokeburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (26.9%), and residents who report English roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (11.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.0%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.