Thornton is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 143,282 people and 33 associated neighborhoods, Thornton is the sixth largest community in Colorado. Housing costs in Thornton are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.Thornton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Thornton is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thornton who work in office and administrative support (12.60%), management occupations (10.93%), and sales jobs (10.15%). 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. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.49% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. One downside of living in Thornton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Thornton, the average commute to work is 31.54 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. In terms of college education, Thornton is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.70% of adults in Thornton have a college degree. The per capita income in Thornton in 2022 was $38,876, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $155,504 for a family of four. However, Thornton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Thornton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Thornton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thornton residents report their race to be 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 37.32% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Thornton include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in Thornton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
