Mount Airy is a medium-sized city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 10,610 people and 12 associated neighborhoods, Mount Airy is the 91st largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mount Airy is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Airy is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Airy who work in office and administrative support (16.74%), sales jobs (10.66%), and teaching (8.17%). 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. 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 population of Mount Airy overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Mount Airy, 24.26% have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mount Airy in 2022 was $34,565, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $138,260 for a family of four. However, Mount Airy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Airy is a somewhat 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. Important ancestries of people in Mount Airy include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Mount Airy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
