Being a small city, Mount Sterling does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Mount Sterling who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.27% of the adults in Mount Sterling have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Sterling in 2022 was $25,914, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,656 for a family of four. However, Mount Sterling contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mount Sterling home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Sterling residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Sterling include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Mount Sterling is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.
