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. Cokeburg has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, 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.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.21% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cokeburg, the average commute to work is 31.35 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small borough, Cokeburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
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 2018 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.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a 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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
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.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
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.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. 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.