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!) Quitman 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. Quitman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Quitman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Quitman may be for you.
One of the benefits of Quitman is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.19 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Quitman does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Quitman are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.84% of adults in Quitman having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Quitman in 2018 was $28,537, 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 $114,148 for a family of four. However, Quitman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Quitman is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Quitman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Quitman residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Quitman include English, Irish, Haitian, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Quitman is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
