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The median home value in Mount Vernon, IN is $222,164 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.04% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$222,164
Year-over-Year
+1.04%
Population
6,315
Mount Vernon ranks #63 of 87 Indiana cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 17.5% below the state's city median of $269,376. It sits in Posey County, where the county-wide median is $237,324.
Median household income in Mount Vernon is $62,263, so the typical home value is about 3.6× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Mount Vernon police recorded a violent crime rate of 332 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 808 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Mount Vernon, that value is $222,164. That's up 1.04% from a year earlier. It is about 17.5% below the typical Indiana city tracked here.
Homes in Mount Vernon are cheaper than Posey County as a whole, where the median is $237,324 — a difference of about 6.4%.
Median household income here is $62,263, so the typical home value is about 3.6× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Mount Vernon police reported 332 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 6,315. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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