Another notable thing is that Pocono Lake is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
The town 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, Pocono Lake has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pocono Lake a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The percentage of people in Pocono Lake who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.72% of adults in Pocono Lake have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pocono Lake in 2022 was $41,772, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $167,088 for a family of four. However, Pocono Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pocono Lake is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pocono Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pocono Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pocono Lake also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.78% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pocono Lake include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Pocono Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
