Bayou La Batre vs Mount Vernon

A side-by-side comparison of Bayou La Batre and Mount Vernon: population, income, housing, and more.

Bayou La Batre and Mount Vernon are places in Alabama. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Bayou La Batre has the higher population (1,977 vs 1,339 in Mount Vernon). Mount Vernon has the higher median household income ($41,250 vs $40,667 in Bayou La Batre). Mount Vernon has the higher median home value ($114,400 vs $87,500 in Bayou La Batre).

Population, income & housing

	Bayou La Batre	Mount Vernon
Population	1,977	1,339
Median age	42.0 yrs	38.8 yrs
Median household income	$40,667	$41,250
Median home value	$87,500	$114,400
Median gross rent	$856	$1,106
Housing units	863	566
Homeownership rate	51.8%	72.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.5%	19.5%
Unemployment rate	2.9%	2.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Bayou La Batre	Mount Vernon
Population	2,543 → 1,977 (-22.3%)	1,450 → 1,339 (-7.7%)
Median household income	$44,554 → $40,667 (-8.7%)	$37,269 → $41,250 (+10.7%)
Median home value	$75,200 → $87,500 (+16.4%)	$87,400 → $114,400 (+30.9%)
Median gross rent	$725 → $856 (+18.1%)	$746 → $1,106 (+48.3%)

Bayou La Batre

Population

2,5431,977

Median household income

$44,554$40,667

Median home value

$75,200$87,500

Median gross rent

$725$856

Mount Vernon

Population

1,4501,339

Median household income

$37,269$41,250

Median home value

$87,400$114,400

Median gross rent

$746$1,106

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Bayou La Batre	Mount Vernon
Under 5	5.1%	2.1%
5 to 17	14.0%	16.1%
18 to 24	11.6%	5.6%
25 to 34	13.6%	21.0%
35 to 44	10.7%	12.3%
45 to 54	15.6%	9.0%
55 to 64	10.8%	14.9%
65 to 74	11.7%	10.1%
75 and over	7.0%	9.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Bayou La Batre	Mount Vernon
White (non-Hispanic)	58.4%	22.6%
Black or African American	4.1%	73.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	2.5%	0.3%
Asian	24.5%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	3.4%	0.0%
Two or more races	6.3%	3.1%
Hispanic or Latino	0.9%	0.7%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Bayou La Batre	Mount Vernon
No high school diploma	36.3%	16.5%
High school graduate	28.2%	38.1%
Some college or associate's	24.0%	26.0%
Bachelor's degree	9.6%	19.2%
Graduate or professional degree	1.9%	0.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Bayou La Batre	Mount Vernon
Drove alone	80.7%	81.8%
Carpooled	12.7%	8.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.7%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	6.6%	6.3%
Other means	0.0%	2.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Bayou La Batre	Mount Vernon
1-unit, detached	86.3%	88.2%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	7.8%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.8%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.7%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	4.4%	11.8%

Poverty & households

	Bayou La Batre	Mount Vernon
Poverty rate	23.5%	22.7%
Average household size	2.67	2.83
Mean commute (minutes)	19	27
Median year structure built	1982	1969