Tippecanoe County, Indiana

• White (non-Hispanic) 135,316 71.6%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19,548 10.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11,660 6.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 15,164 8.0%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 6,242 3.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 109 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 20 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,012 0.5%

• Under 18 38,352 20.3%
• 18–24 45,021 23.8%
• 25–44 47,058 24.9%
• 45–64 35,417 18.7%
• 65 and over 23,223 12.3%

Median household income

$68,036

90% interval $63,621–$72,451

−$3,922 vs IN · 57th of 92

Below poverty line

16.8%

90% interval 15.1%–18.5%

+4.7 pp vs IN · 6th of 92

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.1%

−0.28 pp vs. state

County GDP

$13.7B

2.63% of state

Avg. annual pay

$62,087

Establishments

4,357

• Education & health services 28,500 31.0%
• Manufacturing 18,239 19.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 14,024 15.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 10,288 11.2%
• Professional & business services 7,560 8.2%
• Construction 4,061 4.4%
• Financial activities 2,854 3.1%
• Public administration 2,815 3.1%
• Other services 2,565 2.8%
• Information 764 0.8%
• Natural resources & mining 268 0.3%

Home ownership

53.4%

−17.2 pp vs IN · 92nd of 92

Median gross rent

$1,124

+$62 vs IN · 12th of 92

Owner-occupied

40,470

Renter-occupied

35,338

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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, $86,246/yr) pays 4.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $21,642/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 21 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Republican 32,783 49.1%
• Democratic 32,683 49.0%
• Other / third-party 1,295 1.9%

• Spanish 10,387 5.8%
• Chinese 3,556 2.0%
• Korean 1,185 0.7%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 944 0.5%
• German or other West Germanic 646 0.4%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 551 0.3%
• Arabic 548 0.3%
• Vietnamese 371 0.2%
• Tagalog 168 0.1%

Households

75,808

Family households

40,852

53.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

12,867

31.5% of families

Single-mother families

4,263

10.4% of families

Veterans

6,538

4.3% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 21,346 11.5%
• Catholic 17,384 9.3%
• Mainline Protestant 9,613 5.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 5,587 3.0%
• Orthodox 175 0.1%
• Black Protestant 126 0.1%

Health insured

94.7%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

5.3%

±0.5 pp

68th of 92

With a disability

9.6%

±0.5 pp

91st of 92

Bachelor's or higher

40.5%

±1.5 pp

+11.0 pp vs IN · 4th of 92

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

8.2%

90% interval 7.4%–9.0% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

Tippecanoe Circuit Court

Judges

7 (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

Lafayette

Traffic fatalities

17

11.28 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

16