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1990–2024, VINTAGES PRINTED
The designated place has exactly four decennial counts, and the Story of Granger section prints them as the Bureau made them: the Granger CDP was first delineated for the 1990 census, and its series runs — 1990: 20,241. 2000: 28,284, up 39.7 percent. 2010: 30,465, up 7.7 percent. 2020: 30,337, down 0.4 percent. The series is not cleaner than it is: a CDP's boundary is redrawn between censuses as settlement and annexation move, and Granger's shrank on paper between vintages — the Bureau's older geography statement gives the place 26.2 square miles, all land, while the 2020 Gazetteer file gives 24.68 square miles in total, 24.68 of land and 0.0039 of water; Mishawaka's annexation of Harris Township ground along the southern edge is part of that pressure, and no figure in this series should be read against another without its vintage. The Bureau's estimates program does not run to CDPs — its QuickFacts page for Granger carries no population-estimates figure — so the current vintage is the American Community Survey's: the ACS 2020–2024 five-year estimate puts the place at 30,321 people, effectively the 2020 count standing still. The 2020 texture: 10,458 households in 10,816 housing units, a median age of 41.3 years, and 98.0 percent of the population classed urban. The curve the four counts draw is the suburb's biography in numbers — near-doubling across the 1990s as the plats filled, a slowing 2000s, a flat 2010s. Granger did not boom and bust; it filled in and stopped, which is what the ground was always going to do once the prairie was all lots.
Sources:
- U.S. Census Bureau, decennial censuses of 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020 (the CDP series; 2010 and 2020 verified against the Bureau's QuickFacts for FIPS 1828800).
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files (the 24.68-square-mile vintage) against the Bureau's earlier geography statement (26.2 square miles).
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Demographic Profile (DP1) and PL 94-171 (households, housing units, median age, urban share).
- Missouri Census Data Center, ACS profile for place 16000US1828800 (the 2020–2024 five-year estimate of 30,321).