LafayetteWI
A town of 2,077, settled in 1849.
Is Lafayette a good place to live?
Lafayette’s best subject grade is an A for incomes; its weakest is a C for cost of living. The biggest place to walk is Price Park Conservancy, 116 acres with 2.4 miles of trail. Lafayette's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 80% of U.S. towns. Lafayette has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Lafayette stand out
Where Lafayette beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Lafayette | WI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.4% | 12.1% |
98% of working residents leave Lafayette for work
Where Lafayette’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lafayette grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Wisconsin), ordered by how far Lafayette is from typical.
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Moving to Lafayette: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lafayette, 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.
Lafayette’s typical home value is about $464K
88% of Lafayette households own their home. Its median rent is $1,516 a month, above both the Wisconsin town median ($1,078 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Home values are up 3.8% over the year to September 2026.
| Lafayette | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 88% | 74% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,516 a month | $1,078 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
With only 0.4 jobs per working resident, most people in Lafayette work out of town
The median household income in Lafayette is $112,000. Just 2% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. This Wisconsin town had 396 jobs in 2023, up 162 from 2013. The share of workers in Lafayette who do their job from home is 8%, below both Wisconsin’s towns (12%) and U.S. towns (11%).
| Lafayette | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $112,000 | $87,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 8% | 12% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.2% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The biggest natural risk in Lafayette is inland flooding, at a low overall level
Lafayette’s FEMA hazard score comes in at 22 of 100. FEMA puts 52% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 18% to tornadoes. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 78% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Lafayette is healthier than 73% of U.S. towns
Among adults in Lafayette, 15% report frequent mental distress and 32% sleep under 7 hours. The share of adults in Lafayette who binge drink: 21%.
| Lafayette | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 20% | 16% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 15% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 32% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 24% | 23% |
| What stands out | Lafayette | WI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.4% | 12.1% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.9% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expect four seasons and pleasant summers in Lafayette
Expect July afternoons of 82° and January nights of 13°, with about 38 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer adults under 35 in Lafayette than across Wisconsin
Just over a quarter of residents are under 18 in Lafayette. Adults 18 to 34 are 15% of residents (22% statewide); children under 18 are 26% of residents (21% statewide). A bachelor’s degree or higher: 39% of adults 25 and older, vs 33% across Wisconsin.
| Lafayette | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 26% | 21% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 39% | 32% | 29% |
| Median age | 42.6 years | 42.1 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 122 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±2.1 points). Across Wisconsin, 49.9% of residents are women. Among residents 65 to 74, 64% are men (WI 49%).
| Lafayette | WI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 13.1% | 11.2% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.8% | 10.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.7% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.4% | 12.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.2% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.6% | 11.8% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12% | 13.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 14.2% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.1% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 1.4% | 6.4% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.4% | 29.4% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.9% | 19.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.8% | 11.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.1% | 22% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.4% | 11.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,100, single groups can be off by several points
Protected land: 0.9% of Lafayette
Across 1 park or preserve: 11 miles of trail. In Lafayette, the concentration of trails is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Lafayette | Wisconsin towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.9% | 3.8% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Price Park Conservancy | 2.4 mi | 116 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Lafayette
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Lafayette; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Lafayette residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Wisconsin.
About Lafayette
Town in Wisconsin, United States
Lafayette is a town in Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,039 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Bowers is located in the town. The unincorporated community of Abells Corners is also located partially in the town.
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- Area
- 35 sq mi
- Elevation
- 906 ft
- Area code
- 262
Lafayette’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Lafayette.
| Town | WI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette | — | — | C | — | B | B+ |
| Elkhorn | #116 | A− | C+ | A− | B | B+ |
| Spring Prairie | — | — | C− | — | B | B |
| Geneva | #85 | A− | C− | A+ | B+ | B+ |
| Troy | — | — | C+ | — | B+ | B+ |
| East Troy | #186 | B+ | C− | — | B+ | B+ |
| Sugar Creek | #138 | A− | B− | — | B− | B+ |
Lafayette, Spring Prairie and Troy have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Lafayette, Spring Prairie, Troy, East Troy and Sugar Creek report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lafayette with a neighbor →
Questions about Lafayette
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lafayette, WI expensive?
That is 5.8 years of the area's median household income ($80,520 across the Whitewater-Elkhorn, WI area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.