Cleveland is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Cleveland enrolled in college, Cleveland has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Cleveland spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.95 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Cleveland does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Cleveland are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.22% of adults in Cleveland have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cleveland in 2022 was $26,483, 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 $105,932 for a family of four. However, Cleveland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cleveland is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cleveland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cleveland residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cleveland include English, Irish, Italian, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Cleveland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Arabic.
