Pocono Pines is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,007 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pocono Pines is the 645th largest community in Pennsylvania.Pocono Pines is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.55% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pocono Pines is a town of professionals, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pocono Pines who work in teaching (31.32%), business and financial occupations (19.62%), and management occupations (16.60%). Also of interest is that Pocono Pines has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Pocono Pines telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 37.07% 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. Another notable thing is that Pocono Pines 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. 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!) Pocono Pines 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. Pocono Pines has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pocono Pines than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pocono Pines may be for you. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.08 minutes getting to work every day. Being a small town, Pocono Pines does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Pocono Pines is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.33% of adults in Pocono Pines have a college degree. The per capita income in Pocono Pines in 2022 was $53,307, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $213,228 for a family of four. However, Pocono Pines contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pocono Pines is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pocono Pines home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pocono Pines residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pocono Pines include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, and Pennsylvania German. The most common language spoken in Pocono Pines is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Italian.
