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.
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 a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Mead, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.81% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
As is often the case in a small town, Mead doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
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.
