Quenemo, Kansas
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Quenemo is a city in Osage County
Osage County, Kansas
Osage County is a county located in east-central Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 16295. Its county seat is Lyndon, and its most populous city is Osage City. The county along with Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, and Wabaunsee counties is...

, Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

, United States
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, along the Marais des Cygnes River
Marais des Cygnes River
The Marais des Cygnes River is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about long, in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...

. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 388. It is part of the Topeka, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka |Kansa]]: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was...

 Metropolitan Statistical Area
Topeka metropolitan area
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.

Geography

Quenemo is located at 38°34′49"N 95°31′40"W (38.580413, -95.527895). According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the census
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of 2000, there were 468 people, 169 households, and 128 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density
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 was 1,121.9 people per square mile (430.2/km²). There were 192 housing units at an average density of 460.3 per square mile (176.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.16% White, 0.21% African American, 2.99% Native American, and 3.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.43% of the population.

There were 169 households out of which 42.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.8% were married couples
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 living together, 16.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.7% were non-families. 21.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.16.

In the city the population was spread out with 34.0% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 8.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 100.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $25,000, and the median income for a family was $28,854. Males had a median income of $27,019 versus $14,375 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the city was $9,943. About 19.4% of families and 24.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 30.1% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

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