Inspired by the Utah thread of the same name, here is the new July 2015 population estimates for the 24 largest cities in Colorado. They are sorted in descending order by the 2015 Est. population.
A few highlights...
- We already knew what Denver's 2015 population estimate was when the county totals came out in March, but we can now confirm that Denver remained the population growth leader for municipalities in Colorado, both in the past year and since the 2010 census.
- From 2014-2015, Denver added slightly more people than Colorado Springs, Aurora, and Fort Collins combined.
- Of the 24 cities in the list, Grand Junction in the #16 position is the only city not in the Front Range urban corridor, and it has experienced relatively minor growth, gaining only 1,792 so far this decade.
- Greeley became the 12th Colorado city to join the 100,000+ club.
- Denver's largest growth decade by numeric gain was the 1950s when the city's population grew by 93,353, mostly due to annexation. Denver is on pace to pass that total with the July 2016 estimates next spring, with still four more years to go in the decade and, of course, no annexations.
Additionally, when looking at the Utah table, what strikes me is how more evenly distributed population is across Utah's cities. Utah has 26 cities over 30,000 while Colorado has only 24. The range between Utah's largest city and its 24th largest is 160,386, while the range between Colorado's largest and 24th largest is 651,353. The number of Utah cities between 30,000 and 50,000 is interestingly large (13 of them).
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