191,650 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.8% since 2020)
499 square miles of land · 384 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.
11 active community water systems list Tippecanoe County in the area they serve, reporting 161,238 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAFAYETTE WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5279013 | 70,835 served |
| PURDUE UNIV. WATER WORKS groundwater · state · IN5279015 | 50,000 served |
| INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - WEST LAFAYETTE groundwater · private · IN5279020 | 35,533 served |
| BATTLE GROUND WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · IN5279002 | 1,940 served |
| DAYTON WATER UTILITY buys groundwater · local government · IN5279021 | 1,420 served |
| CLARKS HILL WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5279006 | 660 served |
| WILDCAT HIGHLANDS groundwater · private · IN5279026 | 360 served |
| SHADELAND MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · IN5279017 | 200 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 551 people were held in Tippecanoe County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 412 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 524.
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 Tippecanoe County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $239.4 million — $155.9 million to run schools, about $11,453 per student, plus $76.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $67.3 million local (mostly property tax), $124 million state, $14.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $221.4 million.
Spent $131.6 million — $114.2 million to run schools, about $15,504 per student, plus $16.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $32.1 million local (mostly property tax), $76.8 million state, $23.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $99.7 million.
Spent $41.7 million — $34.7 million to run schools, about $14,344 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $20.1 million local (mostly property tax), $20.9 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $79.1 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Tippecanoe County about $49.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
330 bridges in Tippecanoe County: 199 in good condition, 116 fair, and 15 poor (4.5%). “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.
| US 52 over NORFOLK & SOUTHERN RR · built 1935 | 11,240 vehicles a day |
| OLD US 231 over Wea Creek · built 1929 | 6,262 vehicles a day |
| CR 900E over Branch S Fork Wildcat Cr · built 1981 | 2,639 vehicles a day |
| Prophets Rock Rd over Burnett Creek · built 1963 | 1,729 vehicles a day |
| Lilly Rd over Wea Creek · built 1929 | 1,728 vehicles a day |
| CR 510S over Flint Creek · built 1982 | 1,335 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $258.2 million of work in Tippecanoe County in fiscal 2025, about $1,386 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 Tippecanoe 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 Tippecanoe County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Carroll County (22 mi) · Clinton County (23 mi) · Montgomery County (24 mi) · White County (25 mi) · Warren County (25 mi) · Fountain County (26 mi).