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.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Mead spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.67 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Mead is a very car-oriented town. 98.25% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Mead is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Mead has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Mead does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Mead, just 7.97% 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 $24,785, 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.
