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Leavenworth, KS
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Leavenworth profile


Living in Leavenworth



Leavenworth is a medium-sized city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 37,081 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Leavenworth is the 12th largest community in Kansas.

Leavenworth is a military town: the armed forces employs 9.47% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Public Service and Healthcare are important in the local economy and are the city’s largest civilian employers, employing 15.57% and 14.46% of the civilian workforce respectively.

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

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.10 minutes getting to work every day.

In terms of college education, Leavenworth is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.29% of adults in Leavenworth have a college degree.

The per capita income in Leavenworth in 2018 was $32,416, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,664 for a family of four. However, Leavenworth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Leavenworth is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Leavenworth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leavenworth residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Leavenworth include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Leavenworth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.