About Thornburg

Thornburg is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 469 people and just one neighborhood, Thornburg is the 980th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Thornburg is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 96.82% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Thornburg is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thornburg who work in management occupations (24.55%), legal occupations (11.36%), and sales jobs (10.45%).

Of important note, Thornburg is also a borough of artists. Thornburg has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Thornburg's character.

Also of interest is that Thornburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Thornburg is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Thornburg is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Thornburg really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Thornburg perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

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

Thornburg Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Thornburg. 61.61% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Thornburg in 2000 was $57,674, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $230,696 for a family of four. However, Thornburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Thornburg home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Thornburg is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Thornburg include Irish, German, Italian, Polish, English, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish.

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