 About 4.4% of families and 7.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.5% of those under age 18 and 3.0% of those age 65 or over.In the early 19th-century, prior to their removal in the 1830s, there was a Wyandot village at this location.LaRue had its start in the early 1850s when the railroad was extended to that point.