Yerington’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Yerington has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Yerington a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Yerington is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.18 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Yerington does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Yerington rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.65% of adults 25 and older in Yerington have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Yerington in 2022 was $29,476, which is lower middle income relative to Nevada and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,904 for a family of four. However, Yerington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Yerington is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Yerington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yerington residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Yerington also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.48% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Yerington include German, Irish, Italian, Russian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Yerington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
