It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mead has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mead has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mead than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mead may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Mead spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.60 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Mead is a very car-oriented town. 97.81% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Mead is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Mead has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Mead is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Mead, just 7.06% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Mead in 2022 was $24,425, which is lower middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,700 for a family of four. However, Mead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mead is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mead residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mead include Irish, German, English, French, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Mead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
