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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, 287; 1840, 6,425; 1850, 10,954; 1860, 18,455; 1870, 25,322; 1880, 33,178; 1890, 42,457; 1900, 58,881; 1910, 84,312; 1920, 103,304; 1930, 160,033; 1940, 161,823; 1950, 205,058; 1960, 238,614; 1970, 245,045; 1980, 241,617; 1990, 247,052; 2000, 265,559; 2010, 266,931; 2020, 272,912 (U.S. Census Bureau decennial series as tabulated for the county, via the county's reference history table; 1900–2020 verified against STATS Indiana, Indiana county-level census counts, source: U.S. Census Bureau). The county's growth eras read off the numbers, not the CDP's: the county's great leap was 1920–1930 (+54.9 percent) and its 1930–1950 doubling was industrial South Bend's; the county's plateau is the mirror image of the CDP's — the county grew 2.2 percent in 2010–2020 while the CDP fell four-tenths of one percent, and in 2020 the CDP was 11.1 percent of its county (30,337 of 272,912). One conflict prints whole: STATS Indiana gives the 1970 county count as 244,827; the county's historical table gives 245,045 — a difference of 218 persons between two printings of the same census, unresolved here, and the series above follows the historical table for the pre-1900 span where STATS does not reach. The 1850 county aggregate (10,954) replaces the banked fragment's scattered 1850 citation at series strength; the county's 1850 free-coloured total, already scattered in the fragment, is not re-printed.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, decennial census; STATS Indiana, "County Census Counts: Indiana County-Level Census Counts, 1900 to 2020" (stats.indiana.edu); county historical population table (U.S. Decennial Census, 1790–1960 and 1900–1990 series as tabulated).