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County veterans index, read whole · ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates
The burial half of this row is banked and stands untouched: the county veterans index of 3,388 rows, read whole in the wars fragment, fixes 183 veterans' burials at St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park — on Granger's own ground — partitioned 136 of the Second World War, 25 of the Korea era, 5 of Vietnam, and 4 of the First World War, with Sumption Prairie Cemetery's 88 burials carried as boundary. This addendum's work is the living half: the CDP's veteran population, named by instrument and vintage as the row requires.
The instruments are the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2020–2024 five-year estimates for the Granger CDP (place 28800, Indiana): subject table S2101, Veteran Status, and data profile DP02, Selected Social Characteristics, whose veteran-status lines report the civilian veteran population eighteen years and over. Read through the Census Reporter profile for the CDP (ACS 2024 five-year release, fetched November 11, 2026), the figures are: 1,484 civilian veterans in the Granger CDP, plus or minus 247 at the survey's ninety-percent margin of error — 1,383 men, plus or minus 249, and 101 women, plus or minus 61 — standing at 6.8 percent of the civilian adult population, plus or minus 1.1 points. The comparisons the profile carries put the CDP's share above its neighbours: the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area stands at 5.9 percent (14,779 veterans), Indiana at 6.3 percent (328,414), and the United States at 6.2 percent (16,185,883). These are survey estimates, not a roll: the margin of error on a CDP of this size is wide, the count is printed with its error attached, and the settling instrument for any future refinement is the same pair of tables at the next vintage. Set beside the burial count, the CDP's veteran story closes in two numbers: 183 of its veterans lie in its one great memorial park, and about fifteen hundred more live within its lines as of the 2020–2024 survey — served by posts, a service officer, a Vet Center, and a clinic that all stand, as this section has shown, across the line.