Density and rank, dated; the metro, stated precisely

As of the 2020 census

Density is arithmetic, and this article shows its working, because the town has two areas in the federal frames and the figure changes with the frame used. On the 2020 Gazetteer area of 2.23 square miles, the 2020 count of 1,891 gives 848 persons per square mile. On the 2010 frame's 2.08 square miles, the same count gives 909. Both print, each with its area's vintage, because density without its boundary's date is a number without a source; the township around it, at 76.04 per square mile in 2020, is eleven times thinner, and the contrast — a genuine small town, not a suburb dissolved in farmland — is the geographic fact the pair carries. Rank prints more cautiously: within St. Joseph County's incorporated places, the 2020 count seats New Carlisle behind South Bend and Mishawaka and in the company of Walkerton and Osceola, but a precise dated rank was not pulled from the 2020 place table, and the want is banked as GAP-NC6-POP-2 with that table — the 2020 census's place counts for the county, P.L. 94-171 as published — named as its settler; no rank is asserted here beyond the company named. The metro is stated precisely, as the checklist insists, because the three frames are constantly interchanged in careless print: the town is not its township (1,891 against 4,364), the township is not the county, and the county is the frame of the metropolitan statement — St. Joseph County, Indiana, with Cass County, Michigan, forms the South Bend–Mishawaka IN–MI metropolitan statistical area in the current federal delineation — so that New Carlisle stands in that metro by its county's membership, at county strength, and any finer claim (a micropolitan fringe, a combined-area seat) would need the Office of Management and Budget's delineation bulletin read at the page, which is named here as the settler for any such refinement rather than asserted around.

Sources

1. U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and Gazetteer files (2010 and 2020) — the count and the two areas; densities computed.
2. Olive Township reference record — the township's 2020 density, 76.04 per square mile.
3. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, metropolitan delineations — the South Bend–Mishawaka IN–MI area's composition, at the strength stated.