Yerington’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Yerington has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Yerington has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Yerington than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Yerington may be for you.
Yerington is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Yerington are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.99% of adults in Yerington have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Yerington in 2022 was $31,227, which is lower middle income relative to Nevada, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,908 for a family of four. However, Yerington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Yerington is a very 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 19.97% 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.
