Thompsontown is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 621 people and just one neighborhood, Thompsontown is the 937th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Thompsontown is a blue-collar town, with 41.84% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Thompsontown is a borough of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thompsontown who work in office and administrative support (10.64%), food service (8.16%), and teaching (8.16%).
A relatively large number of people in Thompsontown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.99% 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.
One downside of living in Thompsontown is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Thompsontown, the average commute to work is 32.75 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small borough, Thompsontown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Thompsontown is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.89% of adults 25 and older in Thompsontown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Thompsontown in 2022 was $25,162, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,648 for a family of four. However, Thompsontown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Thompsontown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Thompsontown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thompsontown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Thompsontown include German, Irish, Polish, Pennsylvania German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Thompsontown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
Significantly, 7.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Thompsontown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Spanish and Italian.
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 Thompsontown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report English roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (69.6%) 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 (15.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.