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Kansas has a population of 2.91M people with a median age of 36.5 and a median household income of $54,935. Between 2015 and 2016 the population of Kansas declined from 2.91M to 2.91M, a 0.15% decrease and its median household income grew from $53,906 to $54,935, a 1.91% increase.
The population of Kansas is 76.2% White, 11.6% Hispanic, and 5.54% Black. 11.7% of the people in Kansas speak a non-English language, and 95.7% are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Kansas are University of Kansas, with 6,682 graduates, Kansas State University, with 5,585 graduates, and Johnson County Community College, with 3,373 graduates.
The median property value in Kansas is $144,900, and the homeownership rate is 65.7%. Most people in Kansas commute by Drove Alone, and the average commute time is 18.5 minutes. The average car ownership in Kansas is 2 cars per household.
Kansas is the 35th most populated state in the United States and borders Colorado; Missouri; Nebraska; and Oklahoma.
The economy of Kansas employs 1.38M people. The economy of Kansas is specialized in Farm product raw material merchant wholesalers; Aircraft & parts manufacturing; and Agricultural implement manufacturing, which employ respectively 7.49; 6.63; and 6.27 times more people than what would be expected in a location of this size. The largest industries in Kansas are Elementary & secondary schools (98,121), Construction (77,966), and Restaurants & Food Services (77,711), and the highest paying industries are Footwear manufacturing ($205,212), Sound recording industries ($149,961), and Carpet & rug mills ($127,225).
Median household income in Kansas is $54,935. Males in Kansas have an average income that is 1.38 times higher than the average income of females, which is $42,968. The income inequality of Kansas (measured using the Gini index) is 0.465 which is lower than the national average.
Insurance and Medicare coverage combined with state and county level health and safety statistics for Kansas. In Kansas the age groups most likely to have health care coverage are 6-17 and 6-17, men and women, respectively. The location has a 1 to 75 primary care clinician to patient ratio and a Medicare reimbursement average per patient per year of $9,517. Wyandotte County, KS has the highest prevalence of homicides of any county in Kansas.
Kansas is home to a population of 2.91M people, from which 95.7% are citizens. The ethnic composition of the population of Kansas is composed of 2.22M White residents (76.2%), 336,909 Hispanic residents (11.6%), 161,027 Black residents (5.54%), 89,231 Two+ residents (3.07%), and 79,100 Asian residents (2.72%). The most common foreign languages in Kansas are Spanish (201,948 speakers), Vietnamese (13,747 speakers), and German (11,420 speakers), but compared to other places, Kansas has a relative high number of Laotian (3,437 speakers), German (11,420 speakers), and Vietnamese (13,747 speakers).
In 2015 universities in Kansas awarded 51,858 degrees. The student population of Kansas is skewed towards females, with 20,946 male students and 30,912 female students. Most students in Kansas are White (36,029 and 69.5%), followed by Hispanic or Latino (3,653 and 7.04%), Black or African American (3,343 and 6.45%), and Unknown (2,338 and 4.51%). The largest universities in Kansas by number of graduates are University of Kansas (6,682 and 12.9%), Kansas State University (5,585 and 10.8%), and Johnson County Community College (3,373 and 6.5%). The most popular majors in Kansas are General Business Administration & Management (1,521 and 2.93%), Registered Nursing (1,225 and 2.36%), and Elementary Education & Teaching (858 and 1.65%). The median tuition costs in Kansas are $26,550 for private four year colleges, and $9,012 and $23,913 respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students.
The median property value in Kansas is $144,900, which is 0.71 times smaller than the national average of $205,000. Between 2015 and 2016 the median property value increased from $141,200 to $144,900, a 2.62% increase. The homeownership rate of Kansas is 65.7%, which is higher than the national average of 63.1%. People in Kansas have an average commute time of 18.5 minutes, and they commute by Drove Alone. Car ownership in Kansas is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
