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Tonopah, NV
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Tonopah is a very small town located in the state of Nevada. With a population of 2,179 people and two associated neighborhoods, Tonopah is the 32nd largest community in Nevada.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.57% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Tonopah 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. Tonopah has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tonopah than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tonopah may be for you.

For a small town, Tonopah has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the subway. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Tonopah exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

The percentage of adults in Tonopah with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.47% of adults in Tonopah have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tonopah in 2022 was $31,090, 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 $124,360 for a family of four. However, Tonopah contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Tonopah is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tonopah home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tonopah residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Tonopah also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.59% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tonopah include Irish, German, English, Jamaican, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Tonopah is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.


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