Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.62 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Greenwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Greenwood are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.23% of adults in Greenwood having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Greenwood in 2022 was $28,641, 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 $114,564 for a family of four. However, Greenwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Greenwood is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Greenwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenwood residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Greenwood include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Greenwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
