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.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Thermal is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.64% of the Thermal workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Thermal is a town of service providers, 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 (26.89%), sales jobs (15.65%), and maintenance occupations (11.42%). 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. Being a small town, Thermal does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Thermal has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Thermal in 2022 was $15,718, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,872 for a family of four. However, Thermal contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. 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 95.19% 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 Asian. Important ancestries of people in Thermal include European, Armenian, Other Subsaharan African, Irish, and Yugoslavian. In addition, Thermal has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (52.22%). The most common language spoken in Thermal is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and German/Yiddish.
