Kansas Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Kansas Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Kansas is 81,814 square miles. There are on average 32.9 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 2,688,418 people living in the state within 1,037,891 households (averaging 2.51 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 2,818,747 with an estimated 4.8% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Kansas was $20,506. By 2007 the income was $36,525. The average income in each household was $50,174 in 2008. The percentage of Kansas residents living in poverty in 2008 was 11.3%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $101,444 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $41,694 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 1,234,057 housing units within the state of Kansas, a change of 102,667 from 2000 (or about 9.1%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 69.2%. The median value of each house was about $83,500 in the state in 2000. 6,677 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $880,908 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Kansas births in the year 2006 was 40,968 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 24,553. Infant deaths that year numbered 292.

In 2007, Kansas jobs totaled 1,855,548 across all industries. This was a change of 84,330 jobs from 2000. The number of Kansas jobs in government in 2007 was 296,371. Workers traveled an average of 19.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 219,378 businesses in Kansas in 2002. These include 27.2% of businesses listed as owned by women, 2.0% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.8% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Kansas devoted to farming was 46,345,827 acres in 2007.

In 2000 8.7% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the state's population who were born in a foreign country was 5.0%.

The percentage of adults in Kansas over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.0%. About 25.8% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Kansas with a disability is 429,687.

There were 1,518,921 civilians working in Kansas in 2009. The number unemployed was 101,981 (or 6.7% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $3,196,947 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 205,385 residents less than five years old, (7.3% of residents), 704,951 less than eighteen years old (25.0% of residents), and 367,546 of the population of Kansas was over the age of sixty-five (13.0% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.3%. The population classified as white was 2,495,350 (88.5%), black: 174,689 (6.2%), Asian: 64,863 (2.3%), two or more races: 52,253 (1.9%), Hispanic or Latino: 263,307 (9.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Kansas was $50,897,796 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $44,117,100 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $26,505,396 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $77,365,298 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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