[3] Storey County is part of the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area.

Storey County benefited from the discovery of Comstock Lode silver.

W. Frank Stewart was a silver-mining operator who served from 1876 to 1880 as a state senator for Storey County.

[4] The county population collapsed after the Comstock Lode was fully mined and hit a low of 568 in the 1960 census.

The per capita income for the county was $23,642; 5.8% of the population and 2.5% of families were below the poverty line.

At the 2010 census, 4,010 people, 1,742 households, and 1,141 families were living in the county.

[12] In terms of ancestry, 20.9% were German, 20.1% were Irish, 11.5% were English, 7.2% were Italian, and 2.6% were American.

[18] In 2014, 5,000 people were working in the county,[19] increasing to over 18,000 by 2018, mostly in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center.

Storey County has legal prostitution, which provided a significant portion of the tax base.

[20] In May 2018, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had instructed his staff to accept a tract in the county as an opportunity zone under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, though it had not qualified as low-income.

[21] Michael Milken, who had attended multiple events with and given a private flight to Mnuchin leading up to the designation, was already an investor in the tract.