Thompson township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Thompson township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
83% of Thompson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 21% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 289
- Northeast: 100
- Midwest: 5
- South: 13
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $88,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 292
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 42
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,500
Housing units in Thompson township with a mortgage: 27 (4 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 26
- Construction (24%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Health and personal care, except drug, stores (8%)
- Paper (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (5%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (17%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Financial managers (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thompson township:
- United States or American (19.5%)
- German (16.7%)
- English (16.4%)
- Irish (13.5%)
- Italian (7.3%)
- Polish (6.3%)
- Russian (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (45%)
- Poland (36%)
- Germany (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 119 (69%)
- Carpooled: 23 (13%)
- Walked: 12 (7%)
- Worked at home: 18 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (59%)
- Wood (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
98.5% of residents of Thompson township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (17% speak English very well, 83% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 418- In family households: 347 (89 male householders, 28 female householders)
98 spouses, 110 children (100 natural, 0 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 1 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 71 (25 male householders (12 living alone)), 20 female householders (12 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 66 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 22 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 2 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 24 1-person, 18 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
84 married couples with children.
18 single-parent households (10 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 44.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |