LaGrange County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 38,101 93.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1,845 4.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 141 0.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 28 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 646 1.6%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 27 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 3 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 14 0.0%

• Under 18 12,952 31.7%
• 18–24 3,812 9.3%
• 25–44 9,077 22.2%
• 45–64 9,019 22.1%
• 65 and over 5,945 14.6%

Median household income

$79,761

90% interval $72,289–$87,233

+$7,803 vs IN · 15th of 92

Below poverty line

8.4%

90% interval 6.4%–10.4%

−3.7 pp vs IN · 81st of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

2.9%

−0.51 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.5B

0.48% of state

Avg. annual pay

$56,905

Establishments

1,069

• Manufacturing 6,746 46.1%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 2,365 16.2%
• Education & health services 1,666 11.4%
• Construction 1,068 7.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,052 7.2%
• Professional & business services 427 2.9%
• Other services 410 2.8%
• Public administration 335 2.3%
• Financial activities 297 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 231 1.6%
• Information 45 0.3%

Home ownership

83.0%

+12.4 pp vs IN · 7th of 92

Median gross rent

$839

−$223 vs IN · 58th of 92

Owner-occupied

10,707

Renter-occupied

2,190

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 74% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $67,324/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,761/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 8,073 77.6%
• Democratic 2,162 20.8%
• Other / third-party 173 1.7%

• German or other West Germanic 16,388 44.0%
• Spanish 1,283 3.4%
• Arabic 131 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 17 0.0%
• Tagalog 17 0.0%
• Vietnamese 10 0.0%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 4 0.0%
• Korean 1 0.0%

Households

12,897

Family households

10,256

79.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,895

38.0% of families

Single-mother families

661

6.4% of families

Veterans

1,002

3.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 21,249 52.5%
• Mainline Protestant 2,093 5.2%
• Catholic 950 2.3%
• Black Protestant 300 0.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2 0.0%

Health insured

55.6%

±2.5 pp

Uninsured

44.4%

±2.5 pp

1st of 92

With a disability

11.1%

±1.1 pp

88th of 92

Bachelor's or higher

11.5%

±1.6 pp

−18.0 pp vs IN · 90th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

31.3%

90% interval 28.6%–34.0% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

LaGrange Circuit Court

Judges

2 (Combined Circuit + Superior Court trial-court judges per county (both have general civil + criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 Indiana Office of Judicial Administration Judicial Service Report, cross-checked against courts.in.gov per-county rosters. Counties with a count of 1 operate the Circuit Court only; larger counties add Superior Court judges with concurrent general jurisdiction. Marion County (Indianapolis) is by far the largest single-county bench in Indiana.)

Court seats

LaGrange

Traffic fatalities

9

32.31 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8