The overall crime rate in Yerington is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.18 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Yerington does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Yerington are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.65% of adults in Yerington have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
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.
