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2000'S 2,274 READ WITH ITS BOUNDARY, NOT AGAINST IT
The town's largest count, 2,274 in 2000, is also its least comparable — and the record says why. The 1990 comparative table gives the town's land area as 1.5 square miles in the 1990 boundary; the 2020 Gazetteer gives 1.899. Somewhere in the 1990s the town annexed its way from the smaller line to the larger, and the 2000 count — taken on the enlarged ground — is the only figure in the series that rides on it. The peak is therefore printed with its boundary attached: Walkerton in 2000 held 2,274 people on about 1.9 square miles, against 2,061 on 1.5 in 1990; how much of the apparent growth is annexed ground and how much is increase on the old ground is a question the ordinance course (Neighborhoods' named gap) would answer, and the series does not pretend to. Since the peak: 2,144 in 2010, 2,096 in 2020 — a decline of 7.8 percent across two censuses, gentle and steady, on the unchanged line. The 2020 density is 1,104 people to the square mile. In the state's own frame the town stands 217th of the 696 Indiana places the 2020 redistricting file enumerates, and 199th of its 567 incorporated places — both ranks computed from the PL file joined to the Gazetteer, the same join that reproduces the county's 272,912 exactly. By the 2020 census's Demographic Profile, as the Story of Walkerton section carries it, the town held 747 households in 817 housing units, at a median age of 34.6 years.