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Population & Demographics — North Liberty
North Liberty counted 223 people in 1870 and 1,623 in 2020, and the road between those two numbers is not a smooth climb. This section prints the series whole, keeps the town's count separate from Liberty Township's and St. Joseph County's, and dates every snapshot it uses. A figure without its instrument and its year is not used here.
The series in full: 1870 to 2020, with the missing censuses named
1870 – 2020
The published decennial series, as carried in the U.S. Census Bureau's Census of Population and Housing and reproduced in the town's standard summary, runs as follows. 1870: 223. 1880: 346, up 55.2 percent. 1900: 504. 1910: 681…
The eras read off the numbers
1870 – 2020
Four eras divide at the censuses themselves, not at round dates. The first, 1870 to 1920, is village growth: from 223 to 684 across fifty years, with the fastest single decade the 1870s at 55.2 percent and a near-standstill in…
The boundary question at the jumps
2000 – 2020
A count that jumps by a third in a decade asks first about the line, not the people — and here the line barely moved. The Census Bureau's Gazetteer area for the town was 0.98 square miles in 2010 and 1.04 square miles in 2020…
The frame carried separately: Liberty Township and St. Joseph County
2020 census, with the county series
The town is the smallest of three nested counts, and this section never borrows growth from a larger one. Liberty Township, the civil township that contains the town, counted 3,416 people in 2020 on 42.88 square miles (banked…
Composition: race, Hispanic origin, and the foreign-born question
2000 · 2010 · 2020 censuses
The town the recent censuses describe is overwhelmingly white, and measurably less so with each count. In 2000 the census recorded the town as 97.65 percent white, 0.43 percent Black, 0.21 percent Native American, 0.29 percent…
Age and households, in dated snapshots only
2000 · 2010 · 2020 · ACS 2020–2024
No figure in this article is a timeless present; each carries its census or its survey. Median age: 34 years in 2000, 30.6 in 2010, 34.3 in 2020, and 33.5 in the American Community Survey's 2020–2024 five-year estimates — a…
Density, rank, and the metro stated exactly
2020 census
At the 2020 census the town's density was 1,561.1 persons per square mile on its 1.04 square miles. A population aggregator working from the 2020 redistricting data ranks North Liberty 258th among Indiana places at that census — a derived ranking, printed at that strength. The town's metropolitan frame is exact and is often stated loosely: North Liberty is part of the South Bend–Mishawaka, IN–MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, as the Census Bureau defines it and as the town's standard summary states. The town's 1,623 people are roughly six-tenths of one percent of St. Joseph County's 272,912, and a smaller share still of the two-state metro — city, county and metro are three different denominators, and this section uses only the first for the town itself.
The forecast record, and the count as it stands in November 2026
As of November 2026
No projection for the town was reached that can be scored, and the leg says so instead of inventing a forecast to grade. The town's 2015 Comprehensive Plan works from the 2010 count and the era's estimates; no dated population projection for North Liberty itself, by any named forecaster, was reached, so the forecast item stands as a named gap whose settler is the plan's full text and any STATS Indiana projection series for incorporated places. The ACS 2020–2024 survey estimate is 1,775. Count, estimate and survey therefore stand at 1,623 (2020), 1,632 (July 2024) and 1,775 (survey) — three instruments, three numbers, each with its name on it, which is where this section leaves the town's population in November 2026.