Lake TownshipIN
A town of 1,542.
Is Lake Township a good place to live?
Lake Township’s best subject grades are an A for cost of living and history; its weakest is a D for walkability. Among 594 Indiana towns, just 5 have a lower share of adults with a bachelor’s degree than Lake Township. Lake Township's schools outperform 73% of the state's. The biggest park or preserve is Wildwood Nature Preserve, at 257 acres. Lake Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Lake Township stand out
Where Lake Township beats most towns.
95% of working residents leave Lake Township for work
Where Lake Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lake Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Lake Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Lake Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lake 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 Lake Township.
Top of a very low hazard risk in Lake Township: inland flooding
35% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 26%. Lake Township’s FEMA hazard score comes in at 18 of 100. Flood insurance has paid out on 11 claims locally since 1982.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
About one in three of Lake Township’s working residents commute to Warsaw
Among working residents in Lake Township, 5% work locally. The town had 438 jobs in 2023, down 62 from 2013. Half the trips to work are shorter than 13 miles. In Lake Township, the typical journey to work is 23 minutes, close to Indiana’s towns (24 minutes) and below U.S. towns (25 minutes).
| Lake Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 5% | 11% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Health in Lake Township trails 70% of U.S. towns
For adults in Lake Township, the share who have been diagnosed with depression is 26%. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Lake Township is ahead of Indiana on 1 and behind on 2. Among adults locally, 41% have high blood pressure, above both the Indiana town median (39%) and the median of U.S. towns (35%). 18% of adults in Lake Township smoke cigarettes; 28% get no exercise outside work.
| Lake Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 13% | 12% |
| What stands out | Lake Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 7% | 8.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.4% | 8.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Lake Township
A winter brings about 32 inches of snow, with January nights at 17° and July afternoons at 84°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Wildwood Nature Preserve | — | 257 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Lake Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Lake Township
About 2 of every 100 Lake Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Lake Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Lake Township is one of seventeen townships in Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,549 (down from 1,588 at 2010) and it contained 743 housing units. Lake Township was organized in 1870.
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- Area
- 23 sq mi
- Elevation
- 883 ft
Lake Township’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Lake Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Township | — | — | A | — | B+ | C |
| Clay Township | — | — | A− | — | B+ | C |
| Seward Township | — | — | A+ | — | B+ | C |
| Pleasant Township | — | — | B− | — | B+ | C+ |
Lake Township, Clay Township, Seward Township and Pleasant Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Lake Township, Clay Township, Seward Township and Pleasant Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lake Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Lake Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lake Township, IN expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.