Fort Riley is a somewhat small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 9,230 people and three associated neighborhoods, Fort Riley is the 39th largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Fort Riley was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Fort Riley economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Fort Riley, where the median household income is $52,823.00.The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Fort Riley, employing 39.35% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Accommodation and Finance industries employ 23.04% and 19.75% of the civilian workforce, respectively. One of the benefits of Fort Riley is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 9.50 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small town, Fort Riley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Fort Riley is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.06% of adults 25 and older in Fort Riley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Fort Riley in 2022 was $26,992, which is low income relative to Kansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,968 for a family of four. However, Fort Riley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Riley is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Riley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Riley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Riley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.72% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Riley include German, Irish, English, African, and Scandinavian. The most common language spoken in Fort Riley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
