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2020 — 2025
The last word belongs to the present, stated at the record's strength and no stronger: Mishawaka's counted population at the census of 1 April 2020 was 51,063 — the largest count in the city's history, the eighteenth-largest among Indiana's cities, 18.7 percent of its county and 74.3 percent of its township. The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate puts the city at 51,226 on 1 July 2025, computed from an estimates base of 51,102; the Vintage 2024 series had put it at 51,020 on 1 July 2024, and the vintages are different series, printed side by side here and never blended. The city's own statistics page carries the community at the survey-era figures printed in the composition entry — Black alone 9.2 percent, White alone 80.1 percent, White non-Hispanic 76.7 percent — on the city's own basis. Everything after 2020 in this section is an estimate or a projection and is labeled as one; the next count of record is the census of 2030, against which the county forecast's flat line — and the staircase's sixty-year habit of quiet growth — will both be graded.
Sources:
- U.S. Census Bureau — Census 2020 (51,063); QuickFacts, Mishawaka city, Indiana: Vintage 2025 estimate 51,226 at 1 July 2025 and estimates base 51,102; Vintage 2024 estimate 51,020 at 1 July 2024 and base 51,095; estimates, labeled as such. City of Mishawaka, Information and Statistics page, read November 2026 — the city's own present figures.