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1 July 2025 estimate, published 2026
The latest figure: The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates, the most recent published series as this section closes, put the City of South Bend at 103,201 people on 1 July 2025, and St. Joseph County at 272,861 on the same date. The estimate is a revision downward from the bureau's own previous vintage, which had carried the city at 103,713 — both figures are the bureau's, a year apart, and the newer supersedes the older without erasing it. The last full count remains the 2020 census's 103,453. The scale of the present city against its own past is the Population section's whole subject; the single line to carry here is that the city the counters describe in 2025 is a little over three-quarters the size of the city of 132,445 they counted at the 1960 peak, and roughly level — a few hundred under the 2020 count — rather than falling.
Sources:
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates (released 2026) — City of South Bend, 103,201, and St. Joseph County, 272,861, at 1 July 2025.
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates — the city's superseded 103,713; the 2020 census count, 103,453; the 1960 count, 132,445.
- The Population section of this history — the full series, the decade tables, and the Notre Dame CDP count (7,234, 2020).