Jim Thorpe is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,529 people and two associated neighborhoods, Jim Thorpe is the 339th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Jim Thorpe was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.Jim Thorpe is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Jim Thorpe is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jim Thorpe who work in office and administrative support (14.49%), teaching (10.12%), and healthcare suport services (9.38%). It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Jim Thorpe has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Jim Thorpe has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jim Thorpe than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jim Thorpe may be for you. One downside of living in Jim Thorpe is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Jim Thorpe, the average commute to work is 30.28 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small borough, Jim Thorpe does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Jim Thorpe are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.02% of adults in Jim Thorpe having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Jim Thorpe in 2022 was $35,515, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,060 for a family of four. However, Jim Thorpe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Jim Thorpe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jim Thorpe residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jim Thorpe include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English. The most common language spoken in Jim Thorpe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
