Being a small city, Mount Airy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Mount Airy are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.68% of adults in Mount Airy having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Airy in 2022 was $32,721, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,884 for a family of four. However, Mount Airy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Airy also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.66% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Mount Airy is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Airy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Airy residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Airy include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mount Airy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
