It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Thermal 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. Thermal has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Thermal than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Thermal may be for you.
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 2018 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.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Thermal's cultural character, accounting for 52.22% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Thermal is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and German/Yiddish.
