Derby is a somewhat small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 17,561 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Derby is the 22nd largest community in Kansas.

Derby is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Derby is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Derby who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.71%), sales jobs (11.09%), and teaching (10.71%).

In addition, Derby is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Derby is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Derby a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Derby has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Derby's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Residents of Derby by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 99.3% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented city. While Derby may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

Being a small city, Derby does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Derby Information and Demographics

The citizens of Derby are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.03% of adults in Derby have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Derby in 2000 was $22,779, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,116 for a family of four. However, Derby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Derby home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Derby is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Derby include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Derby is English.