Mount Vernon, Kentucky

Mount Vernon population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Vernon added 1 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by -4.

Mount Vernon covers 2.81 square miles of land, for 875 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Mount Vernon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Vernon is in

All of Mount Vernon's residents live in Rockcastle County, which had 16,226 residents in 2024. Mount Vernon holds 15.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Vernon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Vernon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40456. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Mount Vernon is

The Census internal point of Mount Vernon is at 37.357100, -84.332900. Frankfort, the capital, is 64.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Berea, KY (16,436 people), 16.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 47.7 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Vernon

At 37.36° N, Mount Vernon gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Vernon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Brodhead, 5.7 miles away, with 1,112 people.