The town in numbers, with their vintages

2020 census · ACS five-year estimates as read November 2026

The last census count is 1,891 (2020), and every other number in this article carries its own year. The decennial line — 1,861 in 2010, 1,891 in 2020 — stands whole in the Story of New Carlisle section; the town's own site describes "approximately 1,860 residents," a figure of 2010 vintage against the 2020 count, and both print. The American Community Survey's five-year estimates, as published through Census Reporter and read in November 2026, give the town's present texture: median age 36.8 years; 859 households at 2.3 persons each; median household income $66,824, about the metro figure and nine-tenths of the state's; per capita income $34,175; persons below the poverty line 4.5 percent — about a third of the metro rate of 13.8; median value of owner-occupied housing $186,700; high-school completion 97.6 percent and bachelor's degrees 30.3 percent among adults; veterans 9 percent of the population; and a mean travel time to work of 25.2 minutes, the arithmetic of a town whose jobs increasingly stand east of it in two directions — the South Bend–Mishawaka metro, of which New Carlisle is the western edge (the South Bend–Mishawaka, IN–MI metropolitan area), and the industrial ground rising in its own township. The Census Bureau's annual estimates-program figure for the town, with its July 1 date, was not reached in readable form — the Bureau's data API is key-gated and no key is held — and it stands as a named item in the closing article rather than as a number printed from a lesser carrier.