Bay Springs is a very small city located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,599 people and two associated neighborhoods, Bay Springs is the 141st largest community in Mississippi.Bay Springs is a blue-collar town, with 44.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bay Springs is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bay Springs who work in sales jobs (13.46%), healthcare (11.78%), and teaching (7.33%). The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Bay Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bay Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Bay Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Bay Springs citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.62% of adults 25 and older in Bay Springs have a college degree. The per capita income in Bay Springs in 2022 was $29,094, 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 $116,376 for a family of four. However, Bay Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bay Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bay Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bay Springs residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Bay Springs include English, Irish, European, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Bay Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
