Shawnee County, Kansas

• White (non-Hispanic) 126,385 71.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 24,637 13.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,731 6.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,355 1.3%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 11,142 6.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 639 0.4%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 148 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 988 0.6%

• Under 18 41,081 23.1%
• 18–24 15,360 8.6%
• 25–44 43,934 24.7%
• 45–64 43,032 24.2%
• 65 and over 34,618 19.4%

Median household income

$71,876

90% interval $67,262–$76,490

−$3,526 vs KS · 29th of 105

Below poverty line

12.0%

90% interval 10.2%–13.8%

+1.1 pp vs KS · 44th of 105

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.0%

+0.14 pp vs. state

County GDP

$14.6B

6.33% of state

Avg. annual pay

$63,443

Establishments

6,986

• Education & health services 27,410 26.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 16,160 15.8%
• Professional & business services 14,094 13.8%
• Public administration 11,762 11.5%
• Manufacturing 8,518 8.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 8,243 8.0%
• Financial activities 6,606 6.4%
• Information 214 0.2%
• Construction 48 0.0%

The sectors listed cover 90.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

66.8%

−0.4 pp vs KS · 89th of 105

Median gross rent

$1,000

−$60 vs KS · 12th of 105

Owner-occupied

50,393

Renter-occupied

25,065

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 56% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $95,249/yr) pays 4.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,920/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 40,308 49.3%
• Republican 39,901 48.8%
• Other / third-party 1,610 2.0%

• Spanish 8,996 5.4%
• Chinese 314 0.2%
• Tagalog 291 0.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 290 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 226 0.1%
• Vietnamese 148 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 141 0.1%
• Korean 104 0.1%
• Arabic 40 0.0%

Households

75,458

Family households

45,539

60.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

11,704

25.7% of families

Single-mother families

4,614

10.1% of families

Veterans

10,878

8% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 27,759 15.5%
• Catholic 22,200 12.4%
• Mainline Protestant 15,560 8.7%
• Black Protestant 6,282 3.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 4,466 2.5%
• Orthodox 100 0.1%

Health insured

91.4%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

8.6%

±0.6 pp

46th of 105

With a disability

15.7%

±0.7 pp

51st of 105

Bachelor's or higher

32.2%

±1.2 pp

−3.4 pp vs KS · 11th of 105

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.3%

90% interval 8.5%–10.1% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

3rd Judicial District Court

Judges

16 (District Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); District Magistrate Judges (limited jurisdiction: limited civil, traffic, misdemeanors) separate. Vintage 2026 kscourts.gov; counts cross-checked against K.S.A. § 20-301a.)

Court seats

Topeka

Traffic fatalities

24

17.53 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

23