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Mount Vernon, GA

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Overview


Mount Vernon is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,982 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Vernon is the 263rd largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mount Vernon is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.04% of the Mount Vernon workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mount Vernon is a city of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Vernon who work in teaching (14.74%), food service (10.98%), and office and administrative support (8.42%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Mount Vernon has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.33% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Mount Vernon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

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 11.49% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mount Vernon in 2018 was $14,292, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $57,168 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 31.75% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Mount Vernon is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. 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 Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Vernon include English, Irish, Italian, Eastern European, and French Canadian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

Of particular note, 8.1% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

In addition, neighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 11.6% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.7% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mount Vernon are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 38.5% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Mount Vernon, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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