1. Start with Chesterton’s actual service area
Chesterton is a municipality in Indiana’s Porter County. The 2020–2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimate records 14,446 residents, with a margin of error of 59. That figure describes the town’s population; it does not establish legal demand, website traffic, call volume, competition or the number of people who will complete an intake. It also does not establish a need for particular languages or staffing levels. Your first Video Intake decision should therefore be geographic: define whether the widget is intended for Chesterton alone, Porter County more broadly, or a wider Indiana service area. The product page states that flows can be organized by practice area and that inquiries can be routed by case type and location. Ask how those geographic rules would apply to your own eligibility criteria.
Recommended approach
Write the service-area rule before choosing questions. Include the locations your firm actually serves, the locations it does not serve and the point at which an inquiry should be escalated for human review. Treat the Chesterton population record as context for eligibility and planning—not as a forecast of intake volume.
