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We would like to provide the residents of  Lafayette  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Lafayette Home page. The Lafayette Home page provides as much information as possible on Lafayette. Knowing Lafayette’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lafayette’s Home page, you will also find Lafayette’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lafayette has a population of 168164. 49.5% of Lafayette’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.5 are female. 41.1% of Lafayette is married and 49.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $118,763, and the average rent is $853. Household median income in Lafayette is $46,925, and the individual median income is $28,333. Lafayette’s Ethnic is the following: White(82.2%), Hispanic(13.1%), Black(9.4%), Other(3.8%), Multiple(2.8%), Asian(1.7%), Native(0.1%).


Lafayette ( LAH-fee-ET, LAF-ee-ET) is a city in and the county seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, located 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Indianapolis and 125 miles (201 km) southeast of Chicago. West Lafayette, on the other side of the Wabash River, is home to Purdue University, which contributes significantly to both communities.


Together, Lafayette and West Lafayette form the core of the Lafayette metropolitan area, which had a population of 224,709 in the 2021 US Census Bureau estimates. According to the 2020 United States Census, the population of Lafayette was 70,783, a 25% increase from 56,397 in 2000. Meanwhile, the 2020 Census listed the neighboring city of West Lafayette at 44,595 and the Tippecanoe County population at 186,291.Lafayette was founded in 1825 on the southeast bank of the Wabash River near where the river becomes impassable for riverboats upstream, though a French fort and trading post had existed since 1717 on the opposite bank and three miles downstream.


It was named for the French general Marquis de Lafayette, a Revolutionary War hero.


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