The modern ledger, from the federal count — and this place’s uncounted share

2024 (LATEST YEAR) · SOUTH BEND–MISHAWAKA METRO; THE CDP SHARE STATED AS UNCOUNTED

The federal government counts exports by metropolitan area, and the latest count names this metro, its year and its figure. The United States Trade Representative’s state pages, republishing the Department of Commerce / International Trade Administration metropolitan export series, record for 2024 (stated there as the latest data available) goods exports of 989.6 million dollars for the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area — printed in both the Indiana and Michigan state lists, since the metro (St. Joseph County, Indiana, and Cass County, Michigan) crosses the state line. For scale inside the same series and year: Elkhart-Goshen recorded 2.1 billion dollars, Fort Wayne 1.8 billion, Michigan City-La Porte 464.4 million, and Niles 414.2 million. The ITA’s own metropolitan exports database — annual goods exports by metro from 2005 to the most recently available year, built on the Census Bureau’s Origin-of-Movement ZIP-code methodology, with county detail offered only for the top fifty metros — is the series’ home instrument, and South Bend–Mishawaka is not a top-fifty metro, so the federal count offers no county split for it, let alone a township or CDP split.

Granger’s share of the 989.6 million dollars is therefore stated the only way it honestly can be: uncounted. No federal series counts exports for a census-designated place; the Origin-of-Movement method attributes exports to the ZIP code from which a shipment moves, and ZIP 46530 is a postal geography that is not the CDP — it reaches beyond the Clay–Harris ground and the CDP reaches addresses the ZIP does not govern — so no defensible Granger figure can be carved out of the metro total, and none is carved here. What can be said from this section's own articles is qualitative and is all that is said: the metro’s counted exports are produced overwhelmingly by the manufacturing cities that hold the county’s plants, its Zone 125 users and its defence book, while this ground’s identified outbound trade — one racing-pigeon loft’s birds and winnings, and whatever incidental shipments its distribution firms make inside domestic networks — is real, small, and nowhere in the federal count under this place’s name.

Sources: U.S. Trade Representative, Indiana and Michigan state export pages (2024 metropolitan goods exports, latest data available: South Bend-Mishawaka 989.6 million dollars; comparators as printed); International Trade Administration, U.S. Metropolitan Area Exports Database and Origin-of-Movement ZIP methodology notes (series coverage from 2005; county detail for top-fifty metros only); the Census geography of the CDP (FIPS 18-28800) against ZIP 46530, as settled in this build’s Spine leg. As of November 2026 no newer metro year has been published in the series reached.