Mount Vernon is located in south-central Mobile County in the far southwestern corner of the state. It has a mayor/council form of government.
History


In 1872, the Mobile and Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company built a line from Mount Vernon to Mobile. The eastern Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway bought the line in 1887, and in 1888 it was renamed the Mobile and Birmingham Railway Company. Another narrow-gauge line was absorbed into the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad and converted to standard gauge in 1905.
Demographics
According to 2020 Census estimates, Mount Vernon recorded a population of 1,504. Of that number, 78.6 percent of respondents identified themselves as black, 19.2 percent as white, 1.1 percent as two or more races, 0.9 percent as Asian, 0.6 percent as Hispanic, and 0.2 percent as Native American. The town's median household income was $41,944, and the per capita income was $21,071.
Employment
According to 2020 Census estimates, the workforce in Mount Vernon was divided among the following industrial categories:
- Educational services and health care and social assistance (30.7 percent)
- Retail trade (12.3 percent)
- Professional, scientific, and management, and administrative and waste management services (12.1 percent)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation, and accommodation and food services (11.1 percent)
- Manufacturing (10.2 percent)
- Construction (6.9 percent)
- Public administration (6.2 percent)
- Transportation and warehousing, and utilities (5.5 percent)
- Wholesale trade (2.6 percent)
- Other services, except public administration (1.6 percent)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and extraction (0.9 percent)
Education
Public schools in are part of the Mobile County School District; the town has two elementary schools.
Transportation
U.S. Highway 43/State Highway 13 runs north-south through Mt. Vernon.
Events and Places of Interest

Additional Resources
Mobile County Heritage Book Committee. The Heritage of Mobile County, Alabama. Clanton, Ala.: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2002.