About Thompsonville

Thompsonville is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,800 people and just one neighborhood, Thompsonville is the 406th largest community in Michigan.

Thompsonville is a blue-collar town, with 42.1% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Thompsonville is a town 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 jobs (11.52%), building maintenance and grounds keeping (8.05%), and food service (7.06%).

Thompsonville is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

Thompsonville is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Thompsonville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 96.68% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, Thompsonville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Thompsonville Information and Demographics

In Thompsonville, just 9.84% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Thompsonville in 2000 was $16,170, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $64,680 for a family of four.

The people who call Thompsonville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Thompsonville is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Thompsonville include German, English, Irish, Polish, Dutch, French, and French Canadian.

The most common language spoken in Thompsonville is English.