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Mount Airy, NC
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Living in Mount Airy


Mount Airy is a medium-sized city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 10,583 people and 12 associated neighborhoods, Mount Airy is the 91st largest community in North Carolina.

Also of interest is that Mount Airy has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

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 18.72 minutes getting to work every day.

Mount Airy 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 education level of Mount Airy citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.06% of adults in Mount Airy have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Mount Airy in 2022 was $32,776, which is middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,104 for a family of four. However, Mount Airy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mount Airy is a very 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. Mount Airy also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.03% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Airy include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Turkish.

The most common language spoken in Mount Airy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.