Being a small city, Pontotoc does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Pontotoc who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.78% of the adults in Pontotoc have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pontotoc in 2022 was $25,292, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,168 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 16.83% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pontotoc include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Pontotoc is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
