Demographics
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1890 | 13,197 |
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| 1900 | 18,563 | 40.7% | |
| 1910 | 25,267 | 36.1% | |
| 1920 | 36,164 | 43.1% | |
| 1930 | 45,573 | 26.0% | |
| 1940 | 43,453 | −4.7% | |
| 1950 | 48,666 | 12.0% | |
| 1960 | 44,169 | −9.2% | |
| 1970 | 38,931 | −11.9% | |
| 1980 | 35,724 | −8.2% | |
| 1990 | 53,540 | 49.9% | |
| 2000 | 53,364 | −0.3% | |
| 2010 | 52,347 | −1.9% | |
In 1982, at the insistence of the Kellogg Company, the city annexed Battle Creek Township, nearly doubling the city's population. Kellogg's even went so far as to threaten moving their headquarters if the annexation failed to occur.
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