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TOWN ≠ TOWNSHIP ≠ COUNTY; COUNT ≠ ESTIMATE ≠ PROJECTION
The town is the smallest of the three geographies and the only one that is a place: Osceola town (place FIPS 18-57114, GEOID 1857114) counted 2,590 people on 1 April 2020. Penn Township (county subdivision GEOID 1814158734) counted 68,698 the same day — a figure that contains the town entire, contains part of the city of Mishawaka, and is therefore never the town's number writ large. St. Joseph County counted 272,912. The numbers in this section come in four kinds, kept apart throughout: decennial counts, read in the census volumes and Bureau files themselves; the Bureau's annual estimates, vintage-labelled wherever one prints; the American Community Survey's five-year estimates, which are survey products centered on their period's middle year and carry published margins of error; and projections, which this record mostly does not have — the forecast article below prints that absence as a finding. Where a figure in this section is second-hand or compilation-strength, the article carrying it says so and names the volume that would settle it; this section's rule is the checklist's: completeness with the verification status showing.