Mount Vernon is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,456 people and three associated neighborhoods, Mount Vernon is the 166th largest community in Kentucky.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mount Vernon is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.79% of the Mount Vernon workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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 (20.67%), management occupations (6.85%), and computer science and math (6.16%). 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. 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!) Mount Vernon 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. Mount Vernon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Vernon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Vernon may be for you. Mount Vernon is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.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 11.59% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Mount Vernon in 2022 was $24,075, 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 $96,300 for a family of four. However, Mount Vernon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. 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 Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mount Vernon include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and European. The most common language spoken in Mount Vernon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
