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 15.67 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 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: 98.25% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Mead does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Mead have a very low rate of college education: just 7.97% 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 $24,785, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,140 for a family of four. However, Mead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mead is an extremely 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, Welsh, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Mead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
