Thompsontown is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 623 people and just one neighborhood, Thompsontown is the 937th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Thompsontown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.84% of the Thompsontown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.99% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
In Thompsontown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.75 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly 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.
The percentage of adults in Thompsontown who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.89% of the adults 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.