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Cogan Station, PA

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Overview


Cogan Station is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,866 people and just one neighborhood, Cogan Station is the 310th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Cogan Station is a blue-collar town, with 35.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cogan Station is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cogan Station who work in office and administrative support (9.83%), healthcare (9.38%), and management occupations (8.92%).

A relatively large number of people in Cogan Station telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.75% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Cogan Station is worth considering.

As is often the case in a small town, Cogan Station doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Cogan Station citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.56% of adults in Cogan Station have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cogan Station in 2022 was $39,524, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $158,096 for a family of four. However, Cogan Station contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cogan Station home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cogan Station residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cogan Station include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Cogan Station is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Indo-European.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cogan Station, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 42.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Cogan Station are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.4% of U.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, 35.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Cogan Station, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.8%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (48.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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