Mount Vernon is a medium-sized coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 28,582 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Mount Vernon is the 35th largest community in Virginia.

Mount Vernon is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Vernon is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Vernon who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.92%), management occupations (11.48%), and sales jobs (9.22%).

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.

In addition, Mount Vernon is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

One of the nice things about Mount Vernon is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the town are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

One downside of living in Mount Vernon, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.51 minutes every day commuting to work.

Mount Vernon Information and Demographics

The education level of Mount Vernon citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 36.76% of adults in Mount Vernon have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mount Vernon in 2000 was $29,299, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,196 for a family of four. However, Mount Vernon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mount Vernon is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Vernon home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Mount Vernon is White, followed by African-American. Mount Vernon also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.89% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Vernon include English, German, Irish, and Italian.

Mount Vernon also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 20.94%.

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