Photo: Linda Roy Walls · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Mount Vernon commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Mount Vernon has 21 jobs, and 306 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Mount Vernon C+; getting around on foot earns it D−. Measured by household income, Mount Vernon is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mount Vernon, in a few figures
Mount Vernon is a place people come home to
There are 21 jobs based in Mount Vernon, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mount Vernon has about 780 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Mount Vernon are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 31 across Maryland. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Maryland worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 306 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Mount Vernon gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Mount Vernon is better than 43% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mount Vernon’s grade up ($113,938, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Mount Vernon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mount Vernon could be anywhere from C to A−.
Mount Vernon on a workday afternoon
On a workday 306 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 780 people are in Mount Vernon on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
From Mount Vernon, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Vernon workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 522 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Maryland: 80% drive alone, 5% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
20% of working residents work in Salisbury
Where Mount Vernon clocks in
20% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
In Mount Vernon, 33% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Vernon, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 21. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mount Vernon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Mount Vernon to work
About 27% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Mount Vernon gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Vernon is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mount Vernon near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 563 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Mount Vernon households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Vernon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mount Vernon is 1,236th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Galesville MD | 1,062 | $205K | 2.7% | 6.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Libertytown MD | 1,346 | $114K | 1.0% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,234 | Townsend WI | 1,084 | $88K | 6.8% | 0.0% | 8% | C+ |
| 1,235 | Royal Palm Estates FL | 1,369 | $61K | 16.9% | 7.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,236 | Mount Vernon MD | 1,067 | $114K | 15.2% | 0.0% | 0% | C+ |
| 1,237 | Sullivan Gardens TN | 1,267 | $47K | 8.0% | 1.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,238 | Divernon Township IL | 1,399 | $77K | 14.2% | 4.6% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Mount Vernon, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Mount Vernon: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Vernon?
$113,938 (±$11,914) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Vernon?
15.2%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Vernon?
23 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Vernon work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salisbury (20%, 14 mi), Princess Anne (7%, 5 mi), Fruitland (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Vernon walkable?
Mount Vernon is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Vernon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Vernon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Vernon
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.