Lansing, Kansas Lansing, Kansas Official seal of Lansing, Kansas Location inside Leavenworth County and Kansas Location inside Leavenworth County and Kansas Lansing is a town/city situated along the Missouri River in the easterly part of Leavenworth County, positioned in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 11,265. It is the second most crowded city of Leavenworth County and is a part of the Kansas City urbane area.
The Lansing Correctional Facility (formerly the Kansas State Penitentiary), which includes the state's chief maximum-security prison, is positioned in Lansing.
The Lansing Correctional Facility is a Kansas State prison in Lansing, Kansas.
Lansing is titled for James Lansing, a pioneer settler. Formerly William Lansing Taylor, James changed his name upon his enlistment in 1862 as a hospital steward in the 7th Kansas Cavalry.
Lansing did not turn into an incorporated town/city until 1959. The Kansas State Penitentiary, later retitled the Lansing Correctional Facility in 1990, was authorized by the Kansas Constitution in 1859; it is the state's biggest and earliest facility for detention and rehabilitation of male adult felons. With the opening of the coal mine at the prison the town became an meaningful shipping point for this product. Lansing is positioned at 39 14 55 N 94 53 31 W (39.248689, -94.891880). The town/city is situated along the bank of the Missouri River which also marks the Kansas-Missouri state border.
It is bordered by the town/city of Leavenworth to the north; Kansas City is less than a half-hour to the southeast.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.50 square miles (32.37 km2), of which, 12.39 square miles (32.09 km2) is territory and 0.11 square miles (0.28 km2) is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Lansing has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 80.2% White, 13.2% African American, 0.8% Native American, 2.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.8% from other competitions, and 2.8% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,180 homeholds of which 41.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 62.4% were married couples living together, 11.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 21.5% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 37.6 years.
Enumeration in 2000, there were 9,199 citizens , 2,435 homeholds, and 1,913 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 81.0% White, 12.5% Black or African American, 1.2% Native American, 1.3% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 1.3% from other competitions, and 2.6% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,435 homeholds out of which 42.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 65.0% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 21.4% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.0% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 38.5% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 7.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $60,994, and the median income for a family was $65,639.
Lansing Unified School District (USD 469), with three schools, serves more than 2,000 students. For notable prisoners at the Lansing Correctional Facility, see Lansing Correctional Facility.
"2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
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