Mount Vernon is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,472 people and three associated neighborhoods, Mount Vernon is the 166th largest community in Kentucky.Mount Vernon is a blue-collar town, with 41.59% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mount Vernon is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Vernon who work in office and administrative support (17.65%), computer science and math (7.23%), and management occupations (6.87%). Also of interest is that Mount Vernon has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Being a small city, Mount Vernon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Mount Vernon is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.21% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Mount Vernon in 2022 was $19,933, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $79,732 for a family of four. However, Mount Vernon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Vernon also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.53% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Mount Vernon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Vernon residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Vernon include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Mount Vernon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
