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 very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Mead isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.81% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Mead does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Mead have a very low rate of college education: just 7.06% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
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.
