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Connecting on a personal level is an important part of sharing ideas and creating innovations in LaPorte County. Here you'll find some details about the people and organizations sponsoring this website, demographics of county residents, and more.

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Sponsoring Organizations

Purdue Extension Services

Leadership LaPorte County

Unity Foundation of LaPorte County

LaPorte County Convention & Visitors Bureau

JK Enterprises (website manager)

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Demographics
 
People QuickFacts LaPorte County Indiana
Population, 2003 estimate 109,878 6,195,643
Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003 0.00 0.02
Population, 2000 110,106 6,080,485
Population, percent change, 1990 to 2000 0.03 0.10
Persons under 5 years old, percent, 2000 0.07 0.07
Persons under 18 years old, percent, 2000 0.25 0.26
Persons 65 years old and over, percent, 2000 0.14 0.12
Female persons, percent, 2000 0.49 0.51
 
White persons, percent, 2000 (a) 0.86 0.88
Black or African American persons, percent, 2000 (a) 0.10 0.08
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2000 (a) 0.00 0.00
Asian persons, percent, 2000 (a) 0.01 0.01
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2000 (a) Z Z
Persons reporting some other race, percent, 2000 (a) 0.01 0.02
Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2000 0.02 0.01
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2000 (b) 0.03 0.04
White persons, not of Hispanic/Latino origin, percent, 2000 0.85 0.86
 
Living in same house in 1995 and 2000', pct age 5+, 2000 0.58 0.55
Foreign born persons, percent, 2000 0.03 0.03
Language other than English spoken at home, pct age 5+, 2000 0.06 0.06
High school graduates, percent of persons age 25+, 2000 0.81 0.82
Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2000 0.14 0.19
Persons with a disability, age 5+, 2000 18,794 1,054,757
Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16+, 2000 22.00 22.60
 
Housing units, 2002 46,420 2,615,750
Homeownership rate, 2000 0.75 0.71
Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2000 0.17 0.19
Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2000 93,500 94,300
 
Households, 2000 41,050 2,336,306
Persons per household, 2000 2.52 2.53
Median household income, 1999 41,430 41,567
Per capita money income, 1999 18,913 20,397
Persons below poverty, percent, 1999 0.09 0.10
 
Business QuickFacts LaPorte County Indiana
Private nonfarm establishments with paid employees, 2001 2,625 145,580
Private nonfarm employment, 2001 39,545 2,601,738
Private nonfarm employment, percent change 2000-2001 -0.02 -0.02
Nonemployer establishments, 2000 4,772 319,415
Manufacturers shipments, 1997 ($1000) 2,007,896 142,270,702
Retail sales, 1997 ($1000) 1,041,715 57,241,650
Retail sales per capita, 1997 9,501 9,748
Minority-owned firms, percent of total, 1997 0.08 0.06
Women-owned firms, percent of total, 1997 0.24 0.26
Housing units authorized by building permits, 2002 413 39,596
Federal funds and grants, 2002 ($1000) 488,647 34,199,922
 
Geography QuickFacts LaPorte County Indiana
Land area, 2000 (square miles) 598 35,867
Persons per square mile, 2000 184 170
Metropolitan Area None  
FIPS Code 91 18
 

 
 
 
 
 
This website sponsored by:
Purdue Extension Services
 
Leadership LaPorte County
 
Unity Foundation
 
 
Website created and managed by:
JK Enterprises