The Charter Township of Lansing is a charter township of Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 8,126. The township consists of five non-contiguous tracts of land: one on the west side of Lansing, three on the east side between Lansing and East Lansing, and one on the southeast side of Lansing.
Ingham County Michigan had a population of 9,126 as of the 2010 census
It is neither because it doesn't give us the Census population of the county, just a township within the county. The system may have believed that the township and county are one in the same