LaPorte County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 85,032 76.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8,498 7.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,546 10.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 693 0.6%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,528 4.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 74 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 539 0.5%

• Under 18 23,756 21.2%
• 18–24 8,836 7.9%
• 25–44 28,805 25.7%
• 45–64 28,759 25.7%
• 65 and over 21,761 19.4%

Median household income

$68,116

90% interval $63,528–$72,704

−$3,842 vs IN · 56th of 92

Below poverty line

13.6%

90% interval 11.4%–15.8%

+1.5 pp vs IN · 25th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

+0.34 pp vs. state

County GDP

$5.8B

1.11% of state

Avg. annual pay

$54,051

Establishments

2,521

• Manufacturing 8,167 20.3%
• Education & health services 8,149 20.3%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 8,135 20.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,939 12.3%
• Public administration 3,131 7.8%
• Professional & business services 2,437 6.1%
• Other services 1,328 3.3%
• Financial activities 1,263 3.1%
• Information 120 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 93.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

74.7%

+4.1 pp vs IN · 63rd of 92

Median gross rent

$976

−$86 vs IN · 24th of 92

Owner-occupied

32,614

Renter-occupied

11,019

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 61% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $72,538/yr) pays 2.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $25,822/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 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 26,726 56.2%
• Democratic 20,007 42.1%
• Other / third-party 796 1.7%

• Spanish 3,836 3.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 560 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 543 0.5%
• Tagalog 274 0.3%
• Vietnamese 88 0.1%
• Arabic 81 0.1%
• Chinese 72 0.1%
• Korean 67 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 56 0.1%

Households

43,633

Family households

27,605

63.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

6,040

21.9% of families

Single-mother families

2,981

10.8% of families

Veterans

6,863

7.8% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 19,567 17.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 9,797 8.7%
• Mainline Protestant 6,084 5.4%
• Black Protestant 2,852 2.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,183 1.9%
• Orthodox 72 0.1%

Health insured

94.1%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

5.9%

±0.7 pp

56th of 92

With a disability

15.2%

±0.9 pp

53rd of 92

Bachelor's or higher

22.7%

±1.3 pp

−6.8 pp vs IN · 29th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.0%

90% interval 7.2%–8.8% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

LaPorte Circuit Court

Judges

5 (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

LaPorte

Traffic fatalities

22

24.95 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

19