Shawnee is a medium-sized city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 48,152 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, Shawnee is the seventh largest community in Kansas.

Unlike some cities, Shawnee isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Shawnee are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shawnee is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shawnee who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.74%), sales jobs (12.94%), and management occupations (11.98%).

Also of interest is that Shawnee has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Shawnee 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.

Shawnee is a very car-oriented city: 98.9% of people use private automobiles to get to and from work. In fact, the general consensus among people in Shawnee is that if you need to get anywhere, you're going to have to drive. The landscape is very car-oriented, and features shopping centers, strip malls, parking lots, and wide streets. Pedestrians are discouraged by the fact that sidewalks are not always present, which makes attempts at walking downright daunting in certain parts of town.

Shawnee is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

Shawnee Information and Demographics

The citizens of Shawnee are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 39.54% of adults in Shawnee have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Shawnee in 2000 was $28,142, which is wealthy relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,568 for a family of four. However, Shawnee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Shawnee home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Shawnee is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Shawnee include German, Irish, English, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Shawnee is English. Some people also speak Spanish.