Jim Thorpe, PA Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Population (male): 2,300

Population (female): 2,333

Median Rent: Median gross rent in 2017: $757.

Poverty (breakdown): (13.4% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 24.1% for Black residents, 55.3% for Hispanic or Latino residents)

Sex Offenders: According to our research of Pennsylvania and other state lists, there were 7 registered sex offenders living in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania as of January 15, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Jim Thorpe is 668 to 1.The ratio of registered sex offenders to all residents in this city

Ancestries: Ancestries: German (36.7%), Irish (16.9%), Italian (7.1%), Pennsylvania German (4.2%), American (3.4%), English (3.2%).

Land Area: 14.5 square miles.

Median Incomes:
      Estimated median household income in 2017: $50,867 (it was $35,976 in 2000)
      Estimated per capita income in 2017: $25,185 (it was $17,119 in 2000)
      Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $149,905 (it was $80,200 in 2000) Jim Thorpe:$149,905PA:$181,200

Races:
      White alone - 4,559 - 95.4%
      Hispanic - 119 - 2.5%
      Two or more races - 49 - 1.0%
      Asian alone - 27 - 0.6%
      Black alone - 19 - 0.4%
      Other race alone - 5 - 0.1%
      Native Hawaiian and Other
>Pacific Islander alone - 3 - 0.06%

Following the 1953 death of renowned athlete and Olympic medal winner Jim Thorpe, Thorpe's widow and third wife, Patricia, was impatient when, after five months, the planned memorial in Shawnee, Oklahoma had yet to raise the $100,000 to honor him. The town's citizens had paid for her, a Thorpe son and Jim's body to be shipped from California, paid and arranged for the funeral service at St. Benedict's Catholic church, and paid for the mausoleum costs at Fairview Cemetery. Then Gov. Johnston Murray vetoed a bill which would contribute funds to the erection of the memorial at Athletic Park. On Sept. 1st Mrs. Thorpe, saying she feared Jim would be buried in a potter's field, shipped the body to Tulsa where she said the Chamber of Commerce was going to build a proper memorial, which was not true. When she heard that the boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk were desperately seeking to attract business, she made a deal with civic officials. According to Jim Thorpe's son, Jack, Patricia was motivated by money in seeking the deal. The boroughs merged, renamed the new municipality in Jim Thorpe's honor,[when?] obtained the athlete's remains from his wife and erected a monument to the Oklahoma native, who began his sports career 100 miles (161 kilometres) southwest, as a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The monument site contains his tomb, two statues of him in athletic poses, and historical markers describing his life story. The grave rests on mounds of soil from Thorpe's native Oklahoma and from the Stockholm Olympic Stadium in which he won his Olympic medals.

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Population (male): 2,300

Population (female): 2,333

Median Rent: Median gross rent in 2017: $757.

Poverty (breakdown): (13.4% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 24.1% for Black residents, 55.3% for Hispanic or Latino residents)

Sex Offenders: According to our research of Pennsylvania and other state lists, there were 7 registered sex offenders living in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania as of January 15, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Jim Thorpe is 668 to 1.The ratio of registered sex offenders to all residents in this city

Ancestries: Ancestries: German (36.7%), Irish (16.9%), Italian (7.1%), Pennsylvania German (4.2%), American (3.4%), English (3.2%).

Land Area: 14.5 square miles.

Median Incomes:
      Estimated median household income in 2017: $50,867 (it was $35,976 in 2000)
      Estimated per capita income in 2017: $25,185 (it was $17,119 in 2000)
      Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $149,905 (it was $80,200 in 2000) Jim Thorpe:$149,905PA:$181,200

Races:
      White alone - 4,559 - 95.4%
      Hispanic - 119 - 2.5%
      Two or more races - 49 - 1.0%
      Asian alone - 27 - 0.6%
      Black alone - 19 - 0.4%
      Other race alone - 5 - 0.1%
      Native Hawaiian and Other
>Pacific Islander alone - 3 - 0.06%

Following the 1953 death of renowned athlete and Olympic medal winner Jim Thorpe, Thorpe's widow and third wife, Patricia, was impatient when, after five months, the planned memorial in Shawnee, Oklahoma had yet to raise the $100,000 to honor him. The town's citizens had paid for her, a Thorpe son and Jim's body to be shipped from California, paid and arranged for the funeral service at St. Benedict's Catholic church, and paid for the mausoleum costs at Fairview Cemetery. Then Gov. Johnston Murray vetoed a bill which would contribute funds to the erection of the memorial at Athletic Park. On Sept. 1st Mrs. Thorpe, saying she feared Jim would be buried in a potter's field, shipped the body to Tulsa where she said the Chamber of Commerce was going to build a proper memorial, which was not true. When she heard that the boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk were desperately seeking to attract business, she made a deal with civic officials. According to Jim Thorpe's son, Jack, Patricia was motivated by money in seeking the deal. The boroughs merged, renamed the new municipality in Jim Thorpe's honor,[when?] obtained the athlete's remains from his wife and erected a monument to the Oklahoma native, who began his sports career 100 miles (161 kilometres) southwest, as a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The monument site contains his tomb, two statues of him in athletic poses, and historical markers describing his life story. The grave rests on mounds of soil from Thorpe's native Oklahoma and from the Stockholm Olympic Stadium in which he won his Olympic medals.

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