Lafayette TownshipAllen County, IN
A town of 4,451.
Is Lafayette Township a good place to live?
Lafayette Township's standout: the median household earns $119K. Overall it grades A−, 182nd among Indiana's 585 graded towns. Its public schools beat 76% of Indiana towns on state tests and graduation and natural-hazard risk is low. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. Only 86 of Indiana’s 1,096 towns score lower on cost of living. The biggest park or preserve is Fogwell Forest Preserve, at 65 acres.
What makes Lafayette Township stand out
Where Lafayette Township beats most towns.
Jobs vs. working residents
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Meadow School | K–5 | 604 |
| Roanoke Baptist School | K–12 | 41 |
Lafayette Township has grown 33% since 2010
3,354 counted in 2010 and 4,247 in 2020; an estimated 4,451 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Lafayette Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Lafayette Township is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 95% of comparable towns) to D− for walkability (better than 5%), so the A− overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Lafayette Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lafayette Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lafayette Township.
Lafayette Township draws workers from Fort Wayne and beyond and looks healthier within Indiana than nationally, but it has little public open land.
More than half of Lafayette Township’s working residents commute to Fort Wayne
6,952 jobs are based in Lafayette Township, 3.2 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 4,619 in 2013 to 6,952.
The share of residents in Lafayette Township who live below the poverty line: 3.8%. Just just over a tenth of the town’s working residents have a job in town. The average commute for Lafayette Township comes to 19 minutes, against 24 minutes in Indiana’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Employers in Lafayette Township added 2,333 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 6,952.
| Lafayette Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $119,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 3.8% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 10% | 7.8% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lafayette Township earns an A− for schools
Its two schools are below. The MSD Southwest Allen County Schls school district runs its public schools. Enrollment at Lafayette Township’s public school: 604 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Meadow SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 604 | B+ |
| Roanoke Baptist School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades K–12 | Grades K–12 | 41 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Very low risk in Lafayette Township, with inland flooding at the top
Paid flood insurance claims in Lafayette Township since 1981: 8. FEMA expects less storm and flood damage here than in 90% of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Lafayette Township break down as 50% from inland flooding and 30% from tornadoes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Lafayette Township
The range runs from 18° on a January night to 84° on a July afternoon, with about 34 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Lafayette Township ranks healthier than 62% of the country’s towns
Within Indiana it is healthier than 84% of the 589 graded towns: much of Indiana scores lower on these measures. Against the 5,876 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lafayette Township’s, it is less healthy than 75%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
18% of adults say their health is fair or poor in Lafayette Township. The town beats the Indiana average on 10 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. In Lafayette Township, just over a third of adults sleep under 7 hours, and 13% report frequent physical distress.
| Lafayette Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 26% | 25% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 37% | 36% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Lafayette Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.8% | 14.7% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.6% | 8.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.1% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Conservation land takes up 1.4% of Lafayette Township
Just 315 of its 22,004 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Lafayette Township itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
Walkers can cover 0.4 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Fogwell Forest Preserve | — | 65 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo and 6 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lafayette Township. Close and well known come first.
12 mi Zoo & aquariumFort Wayne Children's Zoo
30 mi MuseumAuburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum
11 mi MuseumFort Wayne Museum of Art
13 mi MuseumUnited States Vice Presidential Museum
15 mi MuseumForks of the Wabash
11 mi GardenFoellinger-Freimann Botanical ConservatoryPhoto credits
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo: Momoneymoproblemz, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum: Michael Walter, a.k.a. Cuppysfriend, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Wayne Museum of Art: Momoneymoproblemz, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United States Vice Presidential Museum: Pilcrow, Public domain · Forks of the Wabash: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Lafayette Township
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Lafayette Township
About 4 of every 100 Lafayette Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
Every workday, about 6,711 people come to Lafayette Township for work
Where Lafayette Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Lafayette Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Lafayette Township is one of twenty townships in Allen County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,354.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 35 sq mi
- Elevation
- 830 ft
Lafayette Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Lafayette Township.
Wayne Township next door grades lower for schools (C to Lafayette Township’s A−) and higher for cost of living (A− to B−).
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Township | #182 | A− | B− | — | A− | B |
| Aboite Township | #69 | A | C+ | — | A− | A− |
| Pleasant Township | #440 | C+ | B | — | C | C+ |
| Jackson Township | #108 | A− | A− | — | B | B |
| Union Township | — | — | A | — | A | B− |
| Wayne Township | #489 | C | A− | — | C | C− |
Union Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Lafayette Township, Aboite Township, Pleasant Township, Jackson Township, Union Township and Wayne Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lafayette Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Lafayette Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lafayette Township, IN a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Lafayette Township grades A− overall, better than 76% of U.S. towns and #182 of 585 in Indiana. It grades B for health and A− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Lafayette Township, IN expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.