When Fishers made the decision to conduct a special partial census, it wasn’t just out of curiosity about how many people are now living in the city……it was expected to bring more revenue to Fishers for the remainder of this decade.  Based on figures released today, the City of Fishers has exceeded those expectations.

City Controller Oscar Giuterrez says federal census officials have the current updated population number for Fishers pegged at 87,887.  That is compared to the official 2010 census count of 76,794.

Giuterrez and his staff have number-crunched what this means for the city financially.  The census cost  $394,036.81, but the controller expects the revised census numbers to gain the city over $2.3 million now through the next regular census in 2020.  After the census expenses, that leaves the city with $1.9 million.

The city will gain $315,244.94 just through the remainder of this calendar year because of the revised population numbers.

The city council authorized the special census in August of 2015.  This was not a special census of the entire city.  Census workers concentrated measuring only the growing areas of the city, which greatly reduced the cost of conducting the population count.