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Galena, KS

2,754 Population
4.6 square miles 598.3 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2024 5-year unless noted

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Demographics

46.6 ±6.8 Median age
  • about 25 percent higher than the figure in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 38.3 ±0.3
  • about 25 percent higher than the figure in Kansas: 37.4 ±0.1

Economics

$26,064 ±$3,249 Per capita income
  • about 80 percent of the amount in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: $32,117 ±$827
  • about two-thirds of the amount in Kansas: $40,978 ±$367
$49,006 ±$14,434 Median household income
  • about 80 percent of the amount in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: $61,901 ±$1,735
  • about two-thirds of the amount in Kansas: $74,275 ±$475

13% ±5% (351  ±136) Persons below poverty line
  • about 80 percent of the rate in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 15.7% 31,278 (±1% / ±2,045)
  • about 20 percent higher than the rate in Kansas: 11.3% 322,842 (±0.2% / ±6,298)

18.7 minutes ±4.2 (23,900  ±6,395) Mean travel time to work
  • about 90 percent of the figure in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 20.4 1,747,125 (±0.6 / ±58,648)
  • a little less than the figure in Kansas: 19.7 25,281,270 (±0.1 / ±223,485)

Families

1,171 ±124 Number of households
  • the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 79,505 ±648
  • Kansas: 1,174,060 ±4,246
2.3 ±0.2 (2,705  ±15) Persons per household
  • about 90 percent of the figure in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 2.5 199,941 (±0 / ±88)
  • a little less than the figure in Kansas: 2.4 2,860,505

N/A Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year

Housing

1,431 ±148 Number of housing units
  • the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 88,475 ±71
  • Kansas: 1,293,635 ±880

$78,500 ±$40,105 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • about half the amount in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: $165,500 ±$3,164
  • about one-third of the amount in Kansas: $217,200 ±$1,343

12.6% ±7% (346  ±193.8) Moved since previous year
  • about 90 percent of the rate in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 13.8% 27,685 (±1.1% / ±2,168.4)
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Kansas: 14.3% 415,368 (±0.3% / ±7,805.5)

Social

89% ±13.6% (1,879  ±305.1) High school grad or higher
  • about the same as the rate in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 89.3% 121,413 (±1.7% / ±2,336)
  • a little less than the rate in Kansas: 92% 1,789,971 (±0.5% / ±9,582.6)
19% ±5.9% (401  ±127) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • about 80 percent of the rate in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 24.2% 32,881 (±0.9% / ±1,274)
  • about half the rate in Kansas: 35.6% 693,081 (±0.3% / ±5,952.8)

N/A Persons with language other than English spoken at home

3.5% ±3.1% (96  ±86) Foreign-born population
  • about 90 percent of the rate in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 3.9% 7,888
  • about half the rate in Kansas: 7.4% 216,817

5.8% ±3.4% (129  ±77) Population with veteran status
  • about three-quarters of the rate in the Joplin, MO-KS Metro Area: 8% 12,327 (±0.5% / ±734)
  • about 80 percent of the rate in Kansas: 6.8% 151,597 (±0.1% / ±2,605)
129 Total veterans ±77 129 Male ±77 N/A Female ±11

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