South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI Metro Area Immigration

Population

The South Bend-Mishawaka Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ increased from 288,357 in 1970 to 319,222 in 2010. That was an increase of 10.7 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 9,739 in 1970 to 15,642 in 2010. That was an increase of 60.6 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 3.4 percent to 4.9 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 9.0 percent.

	South Bend MSA: Population  1970-2010

Sources of Population Change

The primary sources of population change are:

Natural Change [Births minus Deaths or B-D];
Net Domestic Migration [NDM - movement between states]; and
Net International Migration [NIM - movement into and out of the country].
There is also a residual "other" amount that isn't placed in one of those three categories.

The first chart below shows the three population change factors for three periods adjusted for annual average amounts. Natural change (B-D) was the primary factor adding population in all periods.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, B-D continued to add the most population in the first two periods, replaced by NIM in the most recent period.

	South Bend MSA: Sources of Population Change 1990-2014 		South Bend MSA: Sources of Population Change (Adjusted) 1990-2014

		B-D	 NDM	 NIM						 B-D	 NDM	 NIM	
	90-'99	89.3%	 neg.	10.7%					90-'99	 74.0%	 neg.	26.0%
	00-'09	70.3%	 neg.	29.7%					00-'09	 53.9%	 neg.	46.1%
	10-'14	66.8%	 neg.	33.2%					10-'14	 45.0%	 neg.	55.0%

1/ St. Joseph (IN) and Cass County (MI) counties.

Links:

MSA Factsheets by state, and alphabetically.

Home Page