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A place the census invented in 1990: the frame and the counting rules
1990–2026 · Clay and Harris townships, St. Joseph County
Granger has no mayor, no council, and no boundary of its own making: every number in this section is counted inside a line the Census Bureau drew. The Bureau first delineated Granger as a census-designated place for the 1990…
The four counts whole: 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020
April 1, 1990 – April 1, 2020
The CDP's whole enumerated life fits in four numbers: 20,241 people in 1990, 28,284 in 2000, 30,465 in 2010, and 30,337 in 2020 — a rise of 39.7 percent in the place's first counted decade, 7.7 percent in its second, and then a…
1990: the first count, at the strength the two volumes print it
April 1, 1990 · CP-1-16 and CP-2-16
The first census to see Granger found a young, rich, schooled farm-edge suburb of 20,241 people: median age 33.9 years; a third of the population (33.2 percent) under eighteen; only 5.6 percent sixty-five or older; 97.5 males for…
2000: 28,284, and the two parts' two ages
April 1, 2000 · PHC-1-16
The second count added 8,043 people — the largest single-decade gain the place will likely ever print: 28,284 residents on 26.217 square miles of land, a density of 1,078.8 persons per square mile on that census's own geography…
2010: 30,465 — the high-water mark
April 1, 2010 · 2010 Census Demographic Profile (Summary File 1)
The third count is, so far, the place's maximum: 30,465 people; a median age of 40.8 (men 40.5, women 40.9); and the broadest age structure in the record — 2,876 children aged ten to fourteen, the largest five-year band in the…
2020: 30,337 — the decline, in the redistricting file's own cells
April 1, 2020 · PL 94-171
The fourth count is read here from the Bureau's redistricting file itself, cell by cell: 30,337 people. Of them, 22,253 (73.3 percent) were of voting age and 8,084 (26.7 percent) were under eighteen — the child share down from…
The frame's long run: Clay and Harris townships, 1850–2020
1850–2020 · the decennial volumes, read first-hand
Underneath the CDP's thirty counted years lies a hundred and seventy years of township counts, and this article owns them — the settlement story they frame is Before the City's, and is not re-told here. The Seventh Census of 1850…
The waves on their ground: farms, subdivisions, school pressure, brick
1830s–2020s
The numbers above become a history when they are set on the ground they counted: the first wave was settlement itself — the Harris Prairie taking of 1830 and the farm filling that carried Harris to its 437 by 1850 and Clay to its…
Composition, as each census printed it
1850–2024 · the categories are the censuses' own
The place's printed composition begins as a single line: in 1850 the townships were returned as entirely white (the county's 29 free colored residents lived elsewhere in it, as the township article prints), and for most of the…
The survey era: the ACS course and the 2020–2024 profile whole
2005–2024 estimates · as-of November 2026
Between censuses, Granger exists statistically only in the American Community Survey: the Bureau's replacement for the old long form, which for a place of this size publishes five-year estimates only. The first five-year release…
The plateau, measured: the current state as of the newest counts
2010–2026 · printed November 2026
The newest state of the place is a plateau with the edges still moving: the CDP fell by 128 people between the 2010 and 2020 censuses (30,465 → 30,337) and the 2020–2024 survey estimates it at 30,321 — statistically the same…
Population: Open Questions and Their Sources
As of November 2026
What this section could not settle prints here, by name, rather than disappearing:
This addendum closes the five shortfall rows of the population leg. It prints the county's decennial series as its own series, carries the foreign-born run across the censuses that collected it, computes Granger's density rank and its share of its metro from the Bureau's own 2020 files, names the metro precisely, and scores the forecast record against what the censuses returned. The banked population fragment's figures are not re-printed here except where this section cites them; its CDP counts (20,241; 28,284; 30,465; 30,337) and its township series stand as printed.
The county's own series, 1830–2020, printed apart from the CDP's
DECENNIAL SERIES · ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA
The township series was carried whole in the banked fragment; the county's was not. It is printed here whole, as its own series, so no reader borrows county growth for the CDP. St. Joseph County, Indiana, organised 1830: 1830…
Composition in two runs: the foreign-born series, census by census
1990–2024 · GRANGER CDP AND HARRIS TOWNSHIP
The race and Hispanic-origin run is strong in the banked fragment; the foreign-born run had two points and this article makes it a series. The instrument changed between points, and the change is flagged at each point. 1990…
Density and rank, dated: Granger among Indiana's places at the 2020 census
APRIL 1, 2020 · 2020 CENSUS GAZETTEER / PL 94-171 PLACE FILE
Density is banked (1,228.6 per square mile in 2020 on the CDP's own basis) and is not re-computed here. Rank was never stated, and it is stated here from the Bureau's own 2020 place file as republished in the State of Indiana's…
The metro, stated precisely: South Bend–Mishawaka, IN–MI
OMB DELINEATION, CURRENT AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · 2020 CENSUS
The metro is named, composed and shared here for the first time in the build. Granger sits in the South Bend–Mishawaka, IN–MI Metropolitan Statistical Area , as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (Bulletin 23-01…
The forecast record, scored: what was projected against what the censuses found
2014–2050 · MACOG AND THE INDIANA BUSINESS RESEARCH CENTER
MACOG, scored. The Michiana Area Council of Governments' long-range plan of November 2014, "Michiana on the Move: 2040 Transportation Plan," projected the four-county MACOG region — Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph …