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By the 1930 United States Census, the first census in which Gary's population exceeded 100,000, the city was the fifth largest in Indiana and comparable in size to South Bend, Fort Wayne, and Evansville. At that time, 78.7% of the population was classified as white, with 19.3% as foreign-born and another 25.9% as native-born with at least one ...
The city of Indianapolis had a population of over 860,000 and there were over 2 million people living in the metropolitan area of Indianapolis in 2016. [2] During the same time period, the population of the city of Fort Wayne was almost one-third the size of Indianapolis at close to 264,000 people, with roughly 430,000 in its metropolitan area. [3]
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As of the 2023 Census estimates, the population of Indiana was 6,862,199, the average population of Indiana's 92 counties is 74,589, with Marion County as the most populous (968,460), and Ohio County (6,004) the least. 54 counties have 30,000 or more people; 17 counties have populations exceeding 100,000, five of which exceed 250,000; and only ...
Indiana's population continued to grow after the war, exceeding five million by the 1970 census. [60] In the 1960s the administration of Matthew E. Welsh adopted its first sales tax of 2%. [61] Indiana schools were desegregated in 1949. In 1950, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Indiana's population as 95.5% white and 4.4% black. [62]
The population of the MSA was 2,111,040 and the population of the CSA was 2,457,286 as of the 2020 Census. ... I-65 – Runs to Gary, Indiana to the north and ...
The 1967 Gary, Indiana, mayoral election, held on November 7, saw the election of Richard G. Hatcher.. This was, along with the coinciding election in Cleveland, Ohio, the first election of an African American as mayor of an American city with a population over 100,000. [1]
This is a list of mayors of Gary, Indiana. The first mayor, Thomas Knotts , served as Town Board president from 1906 to 1909, when Gary officially became a city. Every mayor since 1943 has served as a member of the Democratic Party .