The communities as they stand: November 2026

Register row L23-#11 · closes as DUG · the dated closing map of this section

The map as it stands, dated: as of November 2026, the designated place holds 30,337 people by the 2020 census and an estimated 30,321 by the ACS 2020–2024 release, and its communities stand as follows. The founding stock — the German, Swiss and English farm families of Harris Prairie and their descendants — survives institutionally in one congregation, New Salem United Methodist on Ash Road with its township-kept cemetery, and genealogically in the plat names and family plats of the county file. The subdivision communities are the present majority's form: the Communities of Knollwood under their umbrella and covenants in the west, the Harris Township plat families in the east, each neighborhood-community governed by its association in a place with no municipal government of its own (Neighborhoods's HOA-era article, banked). The counted threads stand at their ACS strength: Polish 2,096, Italian 1,665, Hungarian 486, Belgian 389, Arab 301 — present in the count, institutionally seated across the city lines, as the entries above print them. The Black community stands at 1,003 by the 2020 count (933 alone, 1,708 alone-or-in-combination, ACS), grown twofold in twenty years, with no seated congregation or institution in the record and its geography still in the tract tables. The Latino community stands at 1,658, with its one named institution, the GMCE congregation on Birch Road. The newest arrivals stand at the record's size, as Population prints them without inflation: 2,419 foreign-born (8.0 percent), Asia the largest region of birth (1,336) ahead of Europe (394), 1,458 naturalized — an Asian-first newest layer whose congregations and institutions, like every layer before it, stand in the record across the lines or not yet at all.

The closing fact of the leg: every community on this ground is housed here and institutionally seated, in whole or in part, somewhere else — South Bend's parishes and congregations, Mishawaka's Belgian and school institutions, the county's federations — except where a Granger congregation or association has made the institution itself: Salem on Ash Road, St. Pius X on Fir Road, GMCE inside Granger Missionary's walls, and the homeowners' associations inside the plats. That division — residence here, institutions divided between here and the cities — is the community map of an unincorporated place, and it is the map as it stands in November 2026.

Sources:

1. Population, Churches & Religion, Neighborhoods (banked) — the counts, congregations, plat communities and HOA-era record assembled in this section's entries above.
2. U.S. Census Bureau — 2020 census count 30,337; ACS 2020–2024 estimate 30,321, with the ancestry, race, Hispanic-origin and foreign-born figures as cited entry by entry above.