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Thornton, CO real estate and demographic information

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Thornton zip codes80229, 80233, 80241, 80640, 80260

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POPULATION
82,433

Thornton, CO Information

About Thornton

Thornton is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 82,433 people and 11 constituent neighborhoods, Thornton is the tenth largest community in Colorado.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Thornton is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Thornton is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Thornton who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.88%), sales jobs (11.66%), and management occupations (8.54%).

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

Thornton Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Thornton is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 19.86% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Thornton in 2000 was $21,471, which is upper middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,884 for a family of four. However, Thornton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Thornton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Thornton home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Thornton is White, followed by Asian. Thornton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.13% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Thornton include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Thornton is English. Some people also speak Spanish.