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.When you are in Mount Vernon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.59% of Mount Vernon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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. 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 percentage of people in Mount Vernon with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.21% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or 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.
