It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Aberdeen 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. Aberdeen has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Aberdeen than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Aberdeen may be for you.
Being a small city, Aberdeen does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Aberdeen is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.73% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Aberdeen in 2018 was $28,278, 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 $113,112 for a family of four. However, Aberdeen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Aberdeen is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Aberdeen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Aberdeen residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Aberdeen include English, Irish, German, African, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Aberdeen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Italian.
