Thorndale is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,344 people and just one neighborhood, Thorndale is the 774th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities, Thorndale isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Thorndale are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Thorndale is a city of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thorndale who work in teaching (14.95%), architecture and engineering (9.48%), and office and administrative support (8.01%).
Also of interest is that Thorndale has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Thorndale’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Being a small city, Thorndale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Thorndale citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.51% of adults in Thorndale have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Thorndale in 2022 was $32,041, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,164 for a family of four. However, Thorndale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Thorndale is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Thorndale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thorndale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Thorndale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.88% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Thorndale include German, English, Irish, Czech, and African.
The most common language spoken in Thorndale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
If you are planning to retire in Texas, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Texas, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.4% of neighborhoods in TX. If a Texas retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 25 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 3.2% have British 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 Thorndale are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.8% of U.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, 38.0% 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 36.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 9.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (14.0%).
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 Thorndale, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (22.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.2%), along with some British ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 (29.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.