The town 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, Mead has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mead a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.60 minutes getting to work every day.
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.
