Yerington is a very small city located in the state of Nevada. With a population of 3,163 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Yerington is the 27th largest community in Nevada.
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.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Yerington spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.98 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Yerington does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Yerington who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.50% of the adults in Yerington have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Yerington in 2018 was $25,493, which is lower middle income relative to Nevada and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,972 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 30.52% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Yerington include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Yerington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.