Mount Airy is a medium-sized city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 10,610 people and 12 associated neighborhoods, Mount Airy is the 91st largest community in North Carolina.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mount Airy is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Airy is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Airy who work in office and administrative support (16.74%), sales jobs (10.66%), and teaching (8.17%). Also of interest is that Mount Airy has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Being a small city, Mount Airy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Mount Airy citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.26% of adults in Mount Airy have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mount Airy in 2022 was $34,565, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $138,260 for a family of four. However, Mount Airy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Airy is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Airy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Airy residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Airy include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Mount Airy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
