New Resident Resources: Welcome to Lafayette-West Lafayette

Welcome to Lafayette-West Lafayette, Indiana -- cities recognized nationally as a top place to live and work. The Lafayette-West Lafayette area is a good place to raise a family, too. We offer excellent educational facilities, from top-notch public and private schools to a world-class university.

There are sprawling parks, museums and theaters, exciting sports action, great health facilites, many leisure activites and a quality that is most important of all -- community spirit!

The Lafayette-West Lafayette area enjoys a rich and diverse cultural atmosphere - from world famous performing artists to basketball, Indiana's passion.

Lafayette is home to over 300 manufacturing firms, including such fields as robotics, biotechnology, food processing, microelectronics, instrumentation and office/clerical industries. Despite the area's low unemployment rate of below 3 percent, there is an ample labor pool. All levels of semi-skilled and skilled workers are available, largely due to the area's excellent educational and job-training institutions. Lafayette is strategically located for business, with 80 percent of the top U.S. markets within a day's truck or rail delivery time.

Lafayette residents enjoy an excellent standard of living. This, coupled with low food prices, property taxes, and insurance costs, creates an upwardly mobile population.

In fact, Lafayette was recently named in the top city in Indiana in which to reside. Money magazine ranked Lafayette number 2 on its June 1998 listing of the top Midwest small cities in the United States in which to live. This poll - examining health care facilites, crime rates, the economy, housing, education, transit, weather, leisure and arts - proves once again that Lafayette's great! Lafayette was also listed 21st out of 200 in the ranking of Industry friendly communities in Industry Week's April '98 issue.

The Lafayette-West Lafayette Chamber of Commerce
122 N. Third Street
Lafayette, IN 47901
(765) 742-4041

Data courtesy of The Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce