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 18.79 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Cleveland is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Cleveland is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.68% of adults in Cleveland have a college degree.
The per capita income in Cleveland in 2018 was $26,351, 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 $105,404 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 French.
The most common language spoken in Cleveland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
