Topeka, KS


Topeka profile

Living in Topeka

Topeka is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 126,808 people and 40 constituent neighborhoods, Topeka is the fourth largest community in Kansas.

Unlike some cities, Topeka isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Topeka are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Topeka is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Topeka who work in office and administrative support (15.89%), sales jobs (8.38%), and management occupations (7.66%).

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Topeka spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.41 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Like elsewhere in America, most people in Topeka use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Topeka‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the bus. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.

The percentage of people in Topeka who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.01% of adults in Topeka have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Topeka in 2010 was $24,976, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,904 for a family of four. However, Topeka contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Topeka is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Topeka home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Topeka residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Topeka also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.10% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Topeka include Irish, English, French , and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Topeka is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.