One of the benefits of La Junta is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.01 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, La Junta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, La Junta is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.62% of adults 25 and older in La Junta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in La Junta in 2018 was $28,147, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,588 for a family of four. However, La Junta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
La Junta is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Junta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Junta residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. La Junta also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 45.02% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in La Junta include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in La Junta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
