Being a small city, Pontotoc does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Pontotoc is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.57% of adults 25 and older in Pontotoc have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pontotoc in 2018 was $25,500, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,000 for a family of four. However, Pontotoc contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pontotoc is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pontotoc home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pontotoc residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pontotoc also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.84% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pontotoc include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Pontotoc is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
