Toney is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 10,243 people and three associated neighborhoods, Toney is the 72nd largest community in Alabama. Much of the housing stock in Toney was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Toney economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Toney, where the median household income is $60,928.00. Toney real estate is some of the most expensive in Alabama, although Toney house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Toney is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Toney is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Toney who work in office and administrative support (11.06%), business and financial occupations (10.17%), and management occupations (7.74%). Also of interest is that Toney has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.11% 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!) Toney 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. Toney has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Toney than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Toney may be for you. In Toney, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.96 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Toney is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In terms of college education, Toney is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.05% of adults in Toney have a college degree. The per capita income in Toney in 2022 was $40,636, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $162,544 for a family of four. However, Toney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Toney is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Toney home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toney residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Toney include Irish, German, English, European, and British. The most common language spoken in Toney is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
