41,122 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.5% since 2020)
380 square miles of land · 108 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
9 active community water systems list LaGrange County in the area they serve, reporting 6,582 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAGRANGE DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5244003 | 2,625 served |
| TOPEKA WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5244008 | 1,178 served |
| WOLCOTTVILLE WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5244010 | 1,035 served |
| SHIPSHEWANA WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5244006 | 703 served |
| FAWN RIVER CROSSING groundwater · local government · IN5244001 | 653 served |
| LAKESIDE MANOR MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · IN5244002 | 215 served |
| AUTUMN GROVE groundwater · private · IN5244013 | 67 served |
| NEIGHBORS OF PIONEER CROSSINGS, LLC groundwater · private · IN5244011 | 60 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 127 people were held in LaGrange County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 523 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 129.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
3 school districts have their office in LaGrange County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $34.7 million — $28.6 million to run schools, about $13,805 per student, plus $5.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.4 million local (mostly property tax), $18.5 million state, $3.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.6 million.
Spent $27.2 million — $21 million to run schools, about $13,070 per student, plus $5.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.6 million local (mostly property tax), $15.7 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $17.6 million.
Spent $19.3 million — $16.8 million to run schools, about $12,679 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.1 million local (mostly property tax), $13.3 million state, $1.4 million federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost LaGrange County about $12.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
100 bridges in LaGrange County: 45 in good condition, 55 fair, and 0 poor (0.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.7 million of work in LaGrange County in fiscal 2025, about $91 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Indiana are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for LaGrange County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have LaGrange County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Noble County (16 mi) · St. Joseph County, MI (19 mi) · Steuben County (22 mi) · Elkhart County (23 mi) · Branch County, MI (27 mi) · DeKalb County (28 mi).