One of the benefits of Pampa is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.14 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Pampa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Pampa rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.42% of adults 25 and older in Pampa have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Pampa in 2018 was $31,426, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,704 for a family of four. However, Pampa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pampa is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pampa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pampa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pampa also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.36% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pampa include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Pampa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
