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Silver Lake, KS

1,514 Population
0.6 square miles 2,706.9 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2018 5-year unless noted

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Demographics

35.2 ±4.5 Median age
  • about 90 percent of the figure in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 39.9 ±0.2
  • a little less than the figure in Kansas: 36.5 ±0.1

Economics

$30,603 ±$5,064 Per capita income
  • a little higher than the amount in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: $29,548 ±$546
  • about the same as the amount in Kansas: $30,757 ±$189
$62,763 ±$7,231 Median household income
  • about 10 percent higher than the amount in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: $56,125 ±$1,123
  • about 10 percent higher than the amount in Kansas: $57,422 ±$337

6.9% ±3.4% (105  ±54) Persons below poverty line
  • about three-fifths of the rate in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 12% 27,391 (±0.8% / ±1,721)
  • about three-fifths of the rate in Kansas: 12.4% 350,280 (±0.2% / ±6,769)

19.4 minutes ±1.6 (11,210  ±2,493) Mean travel time to work
  • a little less than the figure in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 20.3 2,140,860 (±0.3 / ±43,131)
  • about the same as the figure in Kansas: 19.3 26,202,845 (±0.1 / ±167,035)

Families

568 ±84 Number of households
  • the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 94,312 ±869
  • Kansas: 1,124,549 ±4,096
2.7 ±0.2 (1,514  ±245) Persons per household
  • about 10 percent higher than the figure in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 2.4 227,696 (±0 / ±438)
  • a little higher than the figure in Kansas: 2.5 2,828,708 (±0)

3.6% ±3.5% (10  ±10) Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year
  • about three-fifths of the rate in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 5.8% † 2,917 (±0.6% / ±296)
  • about three-fifths of the rate in Kansas: 5.8% 38,640 (±0.2% / ±1,203)

Housing

587 ±88 Number of housing units
  • the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 104,953 ±238
  • Kansas: 1,266,378 ±484

$150,300 ±$7,644 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • about 20 percent higher than the amount in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: $130,700 ±$1,967
  • a little higher than the amount in Kansas: $145,400 ±$806

15.1% ±7.8% (226  ±122.4) Moved since previous year
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 14.1% 32,501 (±0.7% / ±1,607)
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Kansas: 16.5% 472,410 (±0.3% / ±7,675.4)

Social

97.7% ±17.1% (907  ±103) High school grad or higher
  • a little higher than the rate in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 92.3% 146,196 (±1.3% / ±2,087.3)
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in Kansas: 90.7% 1,718,956 (±0.4% / ±7,851.4)
34.4% ±5.1% (319  ±64) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • about 20 percent higher than the rate in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 28.5% 45,057 (±0.7% / ±1,126.3)
  • a little higher than the rate in Kansas: 32.9% 623,076 (±0.3% / ±4,836.5)

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

0.9% ±1.2% (14  ±18) Foreign-born population
  • about one-quarter of the rate in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 3.3% 7,701 (±0.3% / ±658)
  • less than a fifth of the rate in Kansas: 7.1% 206,683 (±0.1% / ±2,955)

10.7% ±3.1% (109  ±35) Population with veteran status
  • a little higher than the rate in the Topeka, KS Metro Area: 10.1% 17,797 (±0.4% / ±644)
  • about 1.3 times the rate in Kansas: 8.3% 181,453 (±0.1% / ±2,219)
109 Total veterans ±35 101 Male ±34 8 Female ±8

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