Toney is a medium-sized town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 10,572 people and three associated neighborhoods, Toney is the 72nd largest community in Alabama. Toney has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. 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.Toney is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-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. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.11% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. The town 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, Toney has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Toney a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. 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. Being a small town, Toney does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Toney citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.05% of adults in Toney have at least a bachelor's 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.
