Lenexa Kansas Real Estate
Lenexa, Kansas, Location, Location, Location!!! This close in suburb of Kansas city is a great place to live. A 15 minute drive gets you most any you would want to go. Lenexa is convenient for work and play. Comfortable affordable real estate, an educated work force, shopping and good schools. If you are interested in Lenexa Real Estate, Steve Kornspan can help.
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Geography
Lenexa is located at 38°57′53″N, 94°45′34″W (38.964689, -94.759535).According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 89.2 km² (34.4 mi²). 88.8 km² (34.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (0.46%) is water.
LaborLenexa was featured in the August 2006 issue of "Heartland Real Estate Business" magazine. Read the article!
Lenexa is an easy place to do business. With one of the most educated workforces in America, finding skilled employees is an easy task. With three major highways intersecting in the heart of Lenexa, transportation and distribution based companies have an easy time getting in and out of the city. The 21,000+ miles of fiber optic cable laid throughout the city is just one of the ways Lenexa has made utilities easy to access.
Educated WorkersJohnson County ranked 1st among all US counties with populations exceeding 250,000 in the percentage of adults with at least a high school education, 4th in percentage with at least a bachelor’s degree, and 19th with a graduate or professional degree. Each year, over 40,000 graduates from the area’s colleges and universities enter the labor force with skills ready to put to use.
QuickStatsIn 2001 there were approximately 1.2 million workers residing in the Kansas City area Johnson County accounted for 21.9% of the metro area’s labor pool. The unemployment rate in Johnson County is approximately 4%, well below the national average.
Demographics As of the census of 2000, Lenexa had 40,238 residents, 15,574 households, and 10,559 families residing in the city.
The population density was 453.2/km² (1,173.8/mi²). There were 16,378 housing units at an average density of 184.5/km² (477.8/mi²).
The racial makeup of the city was 89.50% White, 3.26% African American, 0.38% Native American, 3.63% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.60% from other races, and 1.61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.97% of the population.
There were 15,574 households out of which 35.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.4% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.2% were non-families. 24.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.08.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 32.0% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 8.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years.
For every 100 females there were 95.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $61,990, and the median income for a family was $76,321. Males had a median income of $50,495 versus $32,166 for females. The per capita income for the city was $30,212. About 1.8% of families and 3.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.9% of those under age 18 and 3.0% of those age 65 or over.
Twelve years before the town of Lenexa was platted in 1869, a young man named James Butler Hickok staked a claim on 160 acres at what is now the corner of 83rd and Clare Road. At about the same time, a census of the Shawnee Indians living in the area was being taken. One of the residents was listed as "Na-Nex-Se Blackhoof," the widow of Chief Blackhoof, who was the second signer of the 1854 treaty that ceded 1.6 million acres (6,500 km²) of the Kansas Shawnee Indian reservation to the U.S.Government. A few miles east in Westport, Missouri, was the start of the Old Santa Fe Trail. It meandered through the southeast part of Lenexa on its way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Life in eastern Kansas was about to change dramatically.Later, Mr. Hickok became a scout for the Free-State Army, a sharpshooter and eventually, Wild Bill Hickok, legendary lawman of the Old West. In 1865, shortly before Na-Nex-Se died, the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad was organized to take advantage of favorable new land laws. It later changed its name to Missouri River, Ft. Scott and Gulf Railroad and in 1869 purchased a right-of-way from C.A. Bradshaw with the stipulation that the railroad build a depot on the property. Mr. Bradshaw then sold 10.5 acres to Octave Chanute, a railroad civil engineer, who platted a town in 1869. Legend states that the town was first proposed to be named Bradshaw, but he modestly refused and the name "Lenexa," a derivation of the name Na-Nex-Se, was adopted.
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