Thermal, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Thermal CDP is a small town in California, with 1,420 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #978 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 39% of them. The median age here is 37 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Thermal CDP earn a median of not published a year. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 30.1% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Thermal CDP is valued at $183,200, 39.6% below the national figure and 69% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $922 a month, 34.4% below the national figure, or roughly $11,064 across a full year. 61.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

The Census withheld household income for Thermal CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.