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As of November 2026 · vintages: 2020 census; ACS 2020–2024 (released 29 January 2026); estimates program 2020–2025
The count and the estimate, side by side with their papers: Granger's population stands on two Census Bureau instruments, printed in the Population leg and gathered here with their dates. The decennial count of 1 April 2020 is 30,337. The American Community Survey's 2020–2024 five-year estimate is 30,321, with a margin of error of ±575 — a statistical tie with the count, not a decline, and printed as such in the Population leg. That ACS vintage now carries its release date: the Census Bureau published the 2020–2024 five-year data on 29 January 2026, after revising the release from its originally scheduled 11 December 2025 (the revision was announced 20 November 2025 and confirmed in the Bureau's Tip Sheet 21 of 12 December 2025, with embargoed access from 27 January 2026). The profile the build uses — median household income $123,318, median home value $331,100, poverty rate 4.7%, median age 40.4 on the ACS instrument against 41.3 on the decennial DP1, both printed in the Population leg rather than merged — is that release's product, and its figures are five-year-period estimates centered on 2022, not a 2024 snapshot; the vintage line is the correction to every retelling that calls them "the 2024 numbers."
The figure that does not exist, and the metro figure that does: Readers ask for the current July 1 estimate, and for a census-designated place there isn't one: the Bureau's estimates program publishes July 1 figures for counties, metropolitan areas and incorporated places, and Granger — unincorporated, a CDP drawn for the census only — receives none, a "not applicable" the Population leg prints at the exact cell where other cities print a number. What the estimates program does publish is the metropolitan figure, and it closes this article: the South Bend–Mishawaka, IN–MI metropolitan statistical area (St. Joseph County, Indiana, with Cass County, Michigan) counted 324,501 at the 2020 census and stands at 324,538 in the July 1, 2025 estimate of the Bureau's 2020–2025 estimates vintage — a metro essentially flat across five years in which the CDP at its northeast corner held its own count near even. A figure of 325,300 for 2024 circulates in secondary compilations drawn from the same program's earlier vintage; it is printed here once, labeled as a different vintage's product, and not merged with the 2025 figure. County context, for scale only: the townships that compose the ground counted 34,235 (Clay) and 24,397 (Harris) at the 2020 census — the CDP is a line drawn across both, not a sum of either.
Sources:
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census — Granger CDP count 30,337; Clay Township 34,235; Harris Township 24,397 (as carried in this build's Population leg).
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 five-year estimates — Granger CDP 30,321 (±575); median household income $123,318; median home value $331,100; poverty 4.7%; median age 40.4 (ACS) against 41.3 (2020 DP1), both as printed in the Population leg.
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS release documentation, read November 2026 — the five-year release of 29 January 2026, revised from 11 December 2025 (revision announced 20 November 2025; Tip Sheet 21, 12 December 2025; embargo 27 January 2026; PUMS following 5 March 2026).
- U.S. Census Bureau, "Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020–2025" — South Bend–Mishawaka, IN–MI MSA: 324,501 (2020 census) and 324,538 (1 July 2025 estimate); the 325,300 figure for 2024 as carried by USAFacts from the earlier estimates vintage, labeled and unmerged.