Mount Vernon, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Mount Vernon city is a small city in New York, with 72,528 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #9 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 41.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Mount Vernon city earn a median of $77,171 a year, 1.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 16% below the $91,806 median for the 847 New York cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 13.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mount Vernon city is valued at $449,600, 48.2% above the national figure and 42% above the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,546 a month, 10% above the national figure, or roughly $18,552 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 42.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.