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, Monahans has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Monahans a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Monahans does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Monahans, just 10.49% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Monahans in 2022 was $36,828, 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 $147,312 for a family of four. However, Monahans contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Monahans is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Monahans home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Monahans, accounting for 55.04% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Monahans residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Monahans include English, Irish, German, Italian, and African.
The most common language spoken in Monahans is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
