Thompson Falls is a very small city located in the state of Montana. With a population of 1,447 people and just one neighborhood, Thompson Falls is the 76th largest community in Montana.
Thompson Falls is a blue-collar town, with 39.91% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Thompson Falls is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thompson Falls who work in office and administrative support (14.59%), management occupations (8.01%), and maintenance occupations (7.15%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Thompson Falls has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Thompson Falls 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. Thompson Falls has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Thompson Falls than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Thompson Falls may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Thompson Falls spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.28 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Thompson Falls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Thompson Falls rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.06% of adults 25 and older in Thompson Falls 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 Thompson Falls in 2022 was $24,278, which is low income relative to Montana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,112 for a family of four. However, Thompson Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Thompson Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thompson Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Thompson Falls include German, Norwegian, Dutch, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Thompson Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.9%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 1.3% have Finnish ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Thompson Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 73.4% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Thompson Falls, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (66.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (15.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.