The city 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, Childress has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Childress a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Childress is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Childress, just 9.09% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Childress in 2022 was $29,231, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,924 for a family of four. However, Childress contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Childress is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Childress home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Childress residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Childress also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.20% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Childress include English, German, European, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Childress is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
