Mount Vernon is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 1,376 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Vernon is the 266th largest community in Alabama.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mount Vernon is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.61% of the Mount Vernon workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mount Vernon is a town of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Vernon who work in computer science and math (16.93%), law enforcement and fire fighting (9.67%), and sales jobs (8.12%).
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 town 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.
One downside of living in Mount Vernon, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.40 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Mount Vernon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Mount Vernon who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.49% of the adults in Mount Vernon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Vernon in 2022 was $25,309, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,236 for a family of four. However, Mount Vernon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Vernon is a very ethnically-diverse town. 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 Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Vernon include Irish, German, English, French, and Other Subsaharan African.
The most common language spoken in Mount Vernon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Urdu and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 41 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mount Vernon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 59.7% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 38.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 19.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Mount Vernon, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.1%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.4%).
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (86.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.