What is the leading cause of death in your county? The life expectancy? The number of live births? The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) has several interactive tools on their website that can help you find this information and much more. Their Vital Statistics website includes a state map which you can […]
Census Day – April 1, 2020 – is just a little more than a year away. Colorado has established the State Complete Count Campaign (CCC) to help bring awareness to the census and act as a resource to help ensure Colorado gets the most accurate count possible. You can find resources from the CCC as […]
According to a new report from the State Demography Office, “each year between 2011 and 2016 between 235,000 and 250,000 people moved into Colorado, and between 160,000 and 190,000 people moved out of Colorado.” That means our state’s population grows by about 60,000 to 75,000 people per year! The report also notes that most migrants, […]
In a recent Time Machine Tuesday I wrote about some of our library’s digital documents that tell the story of population changes – and the need for water – over the last twenty years. This week, our digital documents go back quite a bit further, to examine population trends back to Colorado territorial days. In […]
In 1999 the Colorado Legislative Council published an Issue Brief entitled Finding Water for One Million New Residents. It reported that in 20 years the population of the Northern Front Range – including the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, and Larimer – would grow to 3.5 million people, and that one of the […]
If you’re researching which industries drive the economy in various parts of Colorado, be sure to view the Colorado Demography Office’s Base Industry Analysis database. This tool “provides insights into the economic activities that bring outside dollars into a community and the additional jobs that result from the spending of those dollars on local resident […]
Colorado’s State Demography Office has recently released their analysis of new Census Bureau estimates for 2017 population figures. According to this press release from the Department of Local Affairs, which houses the Demography Office, The U.S. increased by 2.3 million people between 2016 and 2017 to reach an estimated population of 325,719,178. During the same […]
You can go practically anywhere in the state and see that Colorado’s population is booming. The I-25 corridor, including Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, and the Denver Metropolitan Area, is especially seeing record growth. More people results in more development, which equals changes and/or reduction in habitat for wildlife. Therefore wildlife numbers are reduced, and many […]
The Colorado Demography Office offers a number of resources regarding population data. Some of these have been explored previously in this blog. Today, however, I wanted to highlight their GIS maps and data, located on their State of Colorado: GIS Directory website. This site gathers many of the Colorado state agencies’ GIS maps together in […]
The State Demography Office has put together a series of infographics on population change, labor, and households for Colorado back to 1970. (Infographics are short one-page graphs or charts accompanied by quick data, maps, etc.) A quick glance at the infographics shows a significant population increase in Colorado since 2000. Other infographics present pie charts […]
How has Colorado’s population changed in terms of age over the last 25 years, and how will it change in the coming years? Which age group claims the greatest number of Coloradans, and how will this change? These questions can be answered with a fascinating animated graph from the Colorado Demography Office. Their Age by […]
For the past several decades Colorado has been among the fastest growing states in the nation — in fact, it is the fourth fastest growing state since 2012, according to the State Demography Office. The Office has prepared a helpful website, Components of Change, that details Colorado’s growth since 1970. Using data from the U.S. […]
What will Colorado households look like in 2040? The Colorado Demography Office predicts an increase of over a million total households between 2014 (2.14 million households) and 2040 (3.15 million) statewide. You can find this data by searching the Demography Office’s handy Colorado Household Projections feature. On the site, you can enter various search parameters to calculate the predicted […]
The State Demography Office is in the process of compiling and releasing Colorado demographical information from the 2010 Census. Data currently available on their website includes urban/rural population, age, households, housing occupancy, housing tenure, and more. Also included are maps illustrating these population figures. The data is presented both statewide and by county. The site […]
The Colorado State Demography Office has added a new Map Gallery to their website. The gallery features maps with census information, poverty data, household income, state-to-state migration, and more. The maps are interactive and customizable. The gallery also includes several apps which, according to the Demography Office, “Compare 2010 Census vs 2000 Census with a […]
The State Demography Office (part of the Colorado Dept. of Local Affairs) has just released a new “dashboard” feature, with information presented for each county. According to the Office, “Our new Demography Dashboard shows graphs and charts for various datasets by county. Graphs include: Net Migration by Age, Population Estimates, Population Projections and Components of Change.” […]
New 2010 population estimates and economic forecasts have just been released from the Colorado State Demography Office. Population and housing unit figures, and county populations by single year of age and sex have been updated. The updated forecasts show Colorado’s population growing by 1.6{66eaadba41c14e7e553ffe7a4ee73fbae213b19704eda0514b3dd79e37e4c0c5} per year over the next five years, increasing to 1.8{66eaadba41c14e7e553ffe7a4ee73fbae213b19704eda0514b3dd79e37e4c0c5} per […]
If you would like to learn more about Colorado, take a look at the new Region Profiles from the State Demography Office. The reports give descriptions of the 19 planning and management regions in Colorado, with information on the population, economy, new community projects, the housing market, and a highlight of the main industries for […]
The Colorado Dept. of Local Affairs’ Demography Section has added a new page to their website, the Thematic Map Gallery. This very interesting site offers a variety of demographic maps. These include historical maps illustrating population back to 1880 as well as “night sky maps” that illustrate the clusters of light at nighttime that indicate […]