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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 and the 2020 delineations it carries forward). Its composition is exactly two counties: St. Joseph County, Indiana, and Cass County, Michigan — one county in northern Indiana, one in southwest Michigan — anchored by the cities of South Bend and Mishawaka in Indiana. At the 2020 census the metro's population was 324,501: St. Joseph County 272,912 and Cass County 51,589; the July 1, 2025 estimate put it at 324,538, essentially flat (U.S. Census Bureau, QuickFacts for the two counties; OMB Bulletin 23-01 as cited in the metro's reference entry). The CDP's shares, computed from the banked count: Granger is 30,337 of 324,501, or 9.3 percent of its metro; its county is 272,912 of 324,501, or 84.1 percent of the metro; the metro is 4.8 percent of the state of Indiana (324,501 of 6,785,528). City, county and metro are not interchangeable, and they are kept apart here: Granger the CDP is a place inside a township inside St. Joseph County inside the metro — four different geographies, four different counts. The metro is not the region: the South Bend–Elkhart–Mishawaka, IN–MI Combined Statistical Area, which adds the Elkhart–Goshen and Niles metropolitan areas and the Plymouth and Warsaw micropolitan areas across six counties, stood at 812,199 at the 2020 census, and no CDP share of the combined area is claimed here.
Sources: Office of Management and Budget, Bulletin 23-01 (delineations); U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census and QuickFacts (St. Joseph County, Indiana; Cass County, Michigan); banked fragment for the 2020 CDP count.