Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Typical home $248,734 (+4.7% in a year), asking rent $1,323 . Mount Vernon, OH metro.
Property tax and schools in Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Mount Vernon is in Knox County, where its property tax is set. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$763 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,262 +5%
- $237,471$248,734 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,211 +36%
- $182,523$248,734 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Mount Vernon$1,306
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Mount Vernon, OH rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio
Mount Vernon is a city of 16,956 people in Knox County. Half its households earn more than $53,845 a year and half less, against $73,878 across Knox County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Knox County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Mount Vernon is a small city in Knox County, Ohio, and the seat of the county. Incomes in the city run well below the county's as a whole, and poverty is more common here than many people would expect for a place its size. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the county, so renting is a real part of life, and a typical home costs a good deal more than a typical month's rent. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops close behind. Among the largest workplaces in the city are Ariel, which makes air compressors, Knox Community Hospital, and Mount Vernon City Schools. Commutes are short, and the number of jobs across the county has slipped a little over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away is Raleigh Mound, an archaeological site. A longer drive brings you to Mohican State Park and Malabar Farm State Park, both protected areas, with the Kokosing River and the Mohican River among the waterways in the surrounding countryside. Motorsport fans can make a longer trip to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a race track.
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- 7,100households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 20,365 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fredericktown South weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mount Vernon
- ArielAir compressors manufacturing1,482
- Knox Community HospitalGeneral hospital1,106FTE
- Mount Vernon City SchoolsSchool district513FTE
- Jeld-wenAll other plastics product manufacturing406
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores228
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter140
- International PaperShipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard129
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,492 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of Mount VernonRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of Mount VernonRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Mount VernonRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Mount VernonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Vernon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Knox County and the Mount Vernon, OH metro.
Mount Vernon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Vernon$248,734
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mount Vernon listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Mount Vernon24.84%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Vernon121
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Vernon37
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mount Vernon$236,418
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Mount Vernon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Vernon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.