Thompsonville is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 479 people and just one neighborhood, Thompsonville is the 751st largest community in Illinois.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Thompsonville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.67% of the Thompsonville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Thompsonville is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thompsonville who work in office and administrative support (13.75%), sales jobs (12.50%), and business and financial occupations (8.33%).
Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Thompsonville is worth considering.
One downside of living in Thompsonville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.16 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, Thompsonville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Thompsonville, just 12.78% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Thompsonville in 2022 was $25,217, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,868 for a family of four. However, Thompsonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Thompsonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thompsonville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Thompsonville include German, Irish, English, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Thompsonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 27 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry.
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 Thompsonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.2% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 Thompsonville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.