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Cambria & Somerset Pennsylvania Counties
You now work from home. You can live anywhere. Let us show you why you will want to Choose Cambria and Somerset Counties!
Tired of big crowds, long commutes and having to save recreation for the weekends? Work from Cambria | Somerset.
The Cambria | Somerset County regions offers the benefits of city life tucked in the beautiful mountains. People are friendly, our streets are safe, the air is fresh, and recreation is literally footsteps from your office door.
- Outdoor Recreation for Healthy Living
- High Quality and Low Cost of Living.
- High Speed Broadband
Our region has so much to offer in terms of outdoor recreation and opportunities for healthy living. It’s one of the aspects leading to an increase in local home sales, particularly now that many people are working remotely.
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The Numbers
ENTERTAINMENT / SAFETY / HEALTH CARE / COST
Cost of Living
Cost of living indices are based on a US average of 100. Below 100 means the community is cheaper than the US average, above 100 means it is more expensive. Cambria County cost of living is 74.5 and Somerset County is 21% lower than the us average.
Hospital
Cambria and Somerset Counties are home to two high performing hospitals systems including the only Level 1 Trauma Center between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
Low Crime Rate
Cambria County violent crime is 10.6. Somerset County violent crime is 12.4. (The US average is 22.7).
Cambria County property crime is 18.0. Somerset County) property crime is 25.9. (The US average is 35.4)
Cambria & Somerset Counties
In present times the economy is trending towards remote work, telework, and people are really starting to look at what their quality of life can be but still be able to make the amount of money that they’re traditionally used to making. We are positioned to really take advantage of that population shift because we not only have housing stock and land with infrastructure to support it, we’re really close to a lot of places that these folks have attachments to and want to be.
“You are within 5 hours drive of the majority of the population in urban centers in the country and you’re within an hour flight of most of the East Coast destinations and you can get anywhere on the other side of the country usually within half a day. It’s pretty spectacular the position we’re in and we’re not remote though you’ll feel remote and if you need to enjoy any of niceties of modern day living, we have all of that too. It’s pretty unique.”
I personally use the outdoors in Johnstown in the region has a whole as it means of clearing my head and almost like a sense of meditation. Just get out in the woods and out on the river and enjoy nature and turn off all the noise in your brain that accumulates over the course of the week.”
“I would tell someone from outside the area that our region is absolutely stunning, it’s beautiful all 4 seasons. And if you’re into the outdoors you can find something in each of those seasons to get outside and enjoy doing. If we were going to take anything positive away from the whole COVID-19 crisis it’s that people are going to start looking at smaller towns like Johnstown as a place to live because we’re realizing that it’s possible to remotely work for a company in a bigger city from a place like Johnstown. And if you’re currently living in a big city and you have to commute to get recreation why when you just move to where the recreation is.”
Vision
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