Notre Dame is a census-designated place and unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend in St. Joseph County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It includes the campuses of three colleges: the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, and Holy Cross College. Notre Dame is split in the company of Clay and Portage Townships. As of the 2020 census, its population was 7,234.

Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame is a retirement community offering continuing care. It is owned by the Brothers of Holy Cross and managed by the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corporation.

Notre Dame is the home of three major headquarters of Holy Cross religious communities. On the campus of Saint Mary’s College the Sisters of the Holy Cross have their Congregational Administration. The Holy Cross College campus is the location of the Provincial Offices of two provinces of the Congregation of Holy Cross: the Midwest Province of Brothers and the Indiana Province of Priests and Brothers. In supplement to these, Notre Dame plus holds provinces of the Superior Faith, which are the Eastern Province of Sisters and the Notre Dame Province of Holy Cross.

As unincorporated communities do not have a municipal government, Notre Dame’s presidency entities are the United States reveal office and the colleges’ police forces. All colleges and universities in Indiana are entitled to an independent police force by law. The University of Notre Dame plus has its own flare department and supplies its own water and skill utilities, except University Village and Cripe Street Apartments, Notre Dame’s family and married housing gain their electricity from American Electric Power.