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THE STATISTICAL RECORD · A TESTED ABSENCE AND AN AGENCY FRAME
A reader looking for Granger's crime rate will not find one, and the reason is itself a finding of this section: no official statistical series measures crime for the designated place. The FBI's crime data is collected by reporting agency, and the agency of this ground is the St. Joseph County Police Department — a jurisdiction that takes in every unincorporated acre of the county, of which the designated place is only the northeastern share. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which measures the CDP for almost everything else this build prints, carries no crime measure at all. The aggregator maps that color the suburb by a letter grade are built from those same agency figures re-drawn over census lines; they are not an official record, and this section does not print them. What the official record does publish, it publishes at the county's scale: the prosecutor's office's own counts of homicide investigations by jurisdiction — three in the county-police jurisdiction in 2019, five in 2020 — and the quarreling clearance series of the metro unit's end, printed whole in the unit's article above.
At the ground's own scale, the count is this section itself. The whole of the designated place's homicide record in the sources swept for this build is the two investigations of the articles above — 2013 and 2021 — across a place that held 30,337 people at the 2020 census and fewer than that, by far, for most of its history. That is not a rate, and this section does not dress it as one; it is the shape of the record — a ground whose serious crime is individually countable in a single file — and it is printed as the record's shape, with the search that produced it named in the closing article. Any future official series at the designated-place scale would change this article, and none was found.
Sources: the FBI's agency-based collection frame and the Census Bureau's ACS subject list, as published (the absence verified against both, November 2026). The prosecutor's jurisdiction counts: South Bend Tribune, September 3, 2021, data of the St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office. Population: the 2020 census figure for the designated place, as carried in the Story of Granger section.