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, Fort Meade has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fort Meade a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Fort Meade, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.26 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Fort Meade does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Fort Meade is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.33% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fort Meade in 2022 was $26,206, which is lower middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,824 for a family of four. However, Fort Meade contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fort Meade is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fort Meade home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Meade residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Meade also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.59% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Meade include English, German, Irish, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Fort Meade is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
