Overall, Cope’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 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, Cope has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cope a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Cope, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.50 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Cope does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Cope, just 6.67% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cope in 2022 was $13,327, which is low income relative to South Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $53,308 for a family of four. Cope also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 66.67% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cope is a very 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 Scottish, English, 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.
