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Mount Vernon, IA jobs, layoffs and employers

Mount Vernon is in Cerro Gordo County.

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Mount Vernon layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Mount Vernon in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Colleges in Mount Vernon

Colleges in Mount Vernon
CollegeTypeStudents
Cornell CollegePrivate nonprofit 4-year1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Mount Vernon. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

  • Northeast Iowa LWDA

    Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Grundy, Hancock, Howard, Mitchell, Winnebago, Winneshiek, Worth

Cerro Gordo County economy

  • 3.5%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.5% the month before

  • 22,213

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 42,785

    people in Cerro Gordo County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $65,537

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 33%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN notices from Iowa’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.