The Census Bureau's estimate for 2025
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program · July 1, 2025
In the story: 8. Carrying it forward, since 2022.
The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 series estimates 107,342 residents in Bend on July 1, 2025.
The same series puts Bend above a hundred thousand in every year it covers, from 102,397 in July 2021 onward. These are estimates, not counts: the next full count is the 2030 census.
What this source supplies
Five of the fourteen estimates: 102,397 for 1 July 2021, 103,172 for 1 July 2022, 104,598 for 1 July 2023, 106,743 for 1 July 2024 and 107,342 for 1 July 2025. The club’s hundred thousand is crossed here, in an estimate rather than a count.