111,348 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.8% since 2020)
598 square miles of land · 186 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.
23 active community water systems list LaPorte County in the area they serve, reporting 71,180 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS surface water · local government · IN5246020 | 33,996 served |
| LAPORTE WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5246017 | 22,197 served |
| WESTVILLE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY groundwater · state · IN5246001 | 2,850 served |
| LONG BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · IN5246028 | 2,050 served |
| SOUTH COAST CONSERVANCY DISTRICT buys groundwater · local government · IN5246004 | 2,013 served |
| KINGSFORD HEIGHTS WATER groundwater · local government · IN5246014 | 1,800 served |
| WESTVILLE WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5246029 | 1,800 served |
| NEW DURHAM ESTATES groundwater · private · IN5246032 | 1,099 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 354 people were held in LaPorte County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 505 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 380.
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.
6 school districts have their office in LaPorte County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $108.6 million — $84.8 million to run schools, about $13,615 per student, plus $15 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $32.2 million local (mostly property tax), $58.3 million state, $15.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $78.6 million.
Spent $92.7 million — $83.6 million to run schools, about $16,106 per student, plus $7.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $30.7 million local (mostly property tax), $53.4 million state, $9.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $45 million.
Spent $38.9 million — $27.5 million to run schools, about $9,444 per student, plus $7.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.4 million local (mostly property tax), $24 million state, $3.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $9.9 million.
Spent $14.1 million — $10.5 million to run schools, about $11,103 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5 million local (mostly property tax), $8.8 million state, $923,000 federal. Long-term debt: $10.3 million.
Spent $12.6 million — $9.7 million to run schools, about $10,258 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.4 million local (mostly property tax), $8.8 million state, $738,000 federal. Long-term debt: $9.5 million.
Spent $6.2 million — $4.6 million to run schools, about $13,786 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2 million local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $512,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3 million.
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 LaPorte County about $37.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
227 bridges in LaPorte County: 78 in good condition, 134 fair, and 15 poor (6.6%). “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.
| E MICHIGAN BLVD over TRAIL CREEK · built 1958 | 23,875 vehicles a day |
| SR 104 over KANKAKEE RIVER · built 1984 | 1,155 vehicles a day |
| CR 800S over WAY DITCH · built 1983 | 875 vehicles a day |
| RANGE ROAD over PORTER DITCH · built 1976 | 650 vehicles a day |
| RANGE ROAD over KINGSBURY CREEK · built 1981 | 400 vehicles a day |
| CR 525S over KANKAKEE RIVER · built 1984 | 200 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $88.8 million of work in LaPorte County in fiscal 2025, about $790 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 LaPorte 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 LaPorte County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Berrien County, MI (17 mi) · Porter County (17 mi) · Starke County (19 mi) · St. Joseph County (24 mi) · Marshall County (29 mi) · Lake County (33 mi).