The overall crime rate in Cope is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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 a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Cope is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Cope has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
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 2022 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.
