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. Bay Springs is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Bay Springs with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 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.
