About Toney

Toney is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 9,461 people and just one neighborhood, Toney is the 66th largest community in Alabama.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Toney is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Toney is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Toney who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.37%), sales jobs (10.85%), and management occupations (5.95%).

Also of interest is that Toney has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Toney is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Toney, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.46% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, Toney does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Toney Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Toney is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 14.96%: 15.81% of adults 25 and older in Toney have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Toney in 2000 was $16,422, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $65,688 for a family of four.

Toney is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Toney home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Toney is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Toney include German, Irish, English, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Toney is English.