Thermal is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,676 people and four associated neighborhoods, Thermal is the 624th largest community in California.When you are in Thermal, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 67.26% of Thermal’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Thermal is a town of transportation and shipping workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thermal who work in farm management occupations (28.10%), sales jobs (13.45%), and management occupations (6.13%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Thermal has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Thermal a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Thermal is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.Thermal ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.94% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Thermal in 2022 was $15,603, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,412 for a family of four. However, Thermal contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Thermal also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.07% of its population below the federal poverty line.Thermal is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Thermal home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Thermal, accounting for 93.31% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Thermal residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Thermal include European, Armenian, Irish, African, and Other Subsaharan African. Foreign born people are also an important part of Thermal's cultural character, accounting for 57.04% of the town’s population. The most common language spoken in Thermal is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and German/Yiddish.
