Being a small city, Wiggins does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Wiggins with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.85% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wiggins in 2022 was $21,208, which is lower middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,832 for a family of four. However, Wiggins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wiggins is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wiggins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wiggins residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wiggins include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Wiggins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
