Bay Springs is a very small city located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,488 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bay Springs is the 141st largest community in Mississippi.When you are in Bay Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.91% of Bay Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bay Springs is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bay Springs who work in sales jobs (13.27%), healthcare (12.76%), and office and administrative support (7.35%). The city 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, Bay Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bay Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Bay Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Bay Springs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.30% of adults in Bay Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Bay Springs in 2022 was $28,986, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,944 for a family of four. However, Bay Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bay Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bay Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bay Springs residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Bay Springs include English, Irish, European, Italian, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Bay Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
