Fairmount vs Mount Vernon

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

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

Mount Vernon has the higher population (885 vs 357 in Fairmount). Mount Vernon has the higher median household income ($88,500 vs $70,708 in Fairmount). Since 2019, Fairmount's population has grown faster (-2.7% vs -8.4%).

Population, income & housing

	Fairmount	Mount Vernon
Population	357	885
Median age	59.8 yrs	55.4 yrs
Median household income	$70,708	$88,500
Median home value	—	$207,000
Housing units	207	446
Homeownership rate	83.9%	93.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	36.6%	13.2%
Unemployment rate	7.6%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Fairmount	Mount Vernon
Population	367 → 357 (-2.7%)	966 → 885 (-8.4%)
Median household income	$71,161 → $70,708 (-0.6%)	$48,347 → $88,500 (+83.1%)
Median home value	$166,100 → $145,300 (-12.5%)	$216,000 → $207,000 (-4.2%)

Fairmount

Population

367357

Median household income

$71,161$70,708

Median home value

$166,100$145,300

Mount Vernon

Population

966885

Median household income

$48,347$88,500

Median home value

$216,000$207,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Fairmount	Mount Vernon
Under 5	1.4%	0.9%
5 to 17	6.2%	14.8%
18 to 24	3.6%	7.5%
25 to 34	13.2%	0.0%
35 to 44	9.8%	11.0%
45 to 54	5.6%	8.8%
55 to 64	24.6%	42.8%
65 to 74	33.1%	7.0%
75 and over	2.5%	7.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Fairmount	Mount Vernon
White (non-Hispanic)	62.2%	87.6%
Black or African American	8.4%	4.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	22.1%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	7.3%	6.4%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	1.7%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Fairmount	Mount Vernon
No high school diploma	10.4%	5.3%
High school graduate	27.8%	33.8%
Some college or associate's	25.2%	47.6%
Bachelor's degree	23.0%	3.7%
Graduate or professional degree	13.6%	9.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Fairmount	Mount Vernon
Drove alone	94.3%	88.8%
Carpooled	0.0%	4.7%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.7%	6.5%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Fairmount	Mount Vernon
1-unit, detached	88.9%	83.6%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	4.8%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	6.3%	16.4%

Poverty & households

	Fairmount	Mount Vernon
Poverty rate	16.5%	18.8%
Average household size	2.50	2.43
Mean commute (minutes)	28	26
Median year structure built	1970	1986