Mount Vernon is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,458 people and three associated neighborhoods, Mount Vernon is the 166th largest community in Kentucky.Mount Vernon is a blue-collar town, with 39.65% 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, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Vernon who work in office and administrative support (17.33%), management occupations (8.23%), and sales jobs (5.36%). 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. As is often the case in a small city, Mount Vernon doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.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 12.05% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Mount Vernon in 2022 was $21,952, 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 $87,808 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 32.70% 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 Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Mount Vernon include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Mount Vernon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
