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Thompsonville, MI

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Overview


Thompsonville is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 484 people and just one neighborhood, Thompsonville is the 579th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Thompsonville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Thompsonville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Thompsonville is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thompsonville who work in office and administrative support (12.30%), maintenance occupations (10.71%), and sales jobs (9.92%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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.

Thompsonville is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Thompsonville have a very low rate of college education: just 9.02% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Thompsonville in 2022 was $27,298, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,192 for a family of four. However, Thompsonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Thompsonville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. 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, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Thompsonville include German, Irish, Polish, English, and French.

The most common language spoken in Thompsonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 36 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 0.5% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Thompsonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.1% 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, 30.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.8%), and 17.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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