Mount Vernon, NY Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Median Rent: Median gross rent in 2017: $1,375.

Sex Offenders: According to our research of New York and other state lists, there were 99 registered sex offenders living in Mount Vernon, New York as of January 18, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Mount Vernon is 693 to 1.>

Ancestries: Ancestries: Jamaican (23.1%), Italian (5.7%), Haitian (2.8%), American (2.1%), Brazilian (2.1%), African (1.9%).

During the 1960s, Mount Vernon was a divided city on the brink of a "northern style" segregation. Many blacks from the southern United States migrated north and settled in the city of Mount Vernon for better job opportunities and educational advancements. At the same time, many white Americans from the Bronx and Manhattan looked to Mount Vernon as a new "bedroom community" due to rising crime in New York City (a "white flight" factor contributed as well). As a result, Mount Vernon became divided in two by the New Haven Line railroad tracks of the Metro-North Railroad: North Side and South Side. The population south of the tracks became predominantly black, while that north of the tracks was largely white.