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.
One of the benefits of Mead is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.60 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.
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.
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.
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.
