Colorado Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Colorado Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Colorado is 103,717 square miles. There are on average 41.5 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 4,301,261 people living in the state within 1,658,238 households (averaging 2.53 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 5,024,748 with an estimated 16.8% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Colorado was $24,049. By 2007 the income was $41,192. The average income in each household was $57,184 in 2008. The percentage of Colorado residents living in poverty in 2008 was 11.2%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $199,483 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $49,594 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,167,658 housing units within the state of Colorado, a change of 359,300 from 2000 (or about 19.9%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 67.3%. The median value of each house was about $166,600 in the state in 2000. 9,355 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $2,071,136 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Colorado births in the year 2006 was 70,751 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 29,521. Infant deaths that year numbered 404.

In 2007, Colorado jobs totaled 3,215,903 across all industries. This was a change of 266,072 jobs from 2000. The number of Colorado jobs in government in 2007 was 423,713. Workers traveled an average of 24.3 minutes to work each day.

There were 464,982 businesses in Colorado in 2002. These include 29.1% of businesses listed as owned by women, 1.5% of businesses owned by blacks, 5.2% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.3% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.8% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Colorado devoted to farming was 31,604,911 acres in 2007.

In 2000 15.1% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the state's population who were born in a foreign country was 8.6%.

The percentage of adults in Colorado over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.9%. About 32.7% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Colorado with a disability is 638,654.

There were 2,701,026 civilians working in Colorado in 2009. The number unemployed was 208,486 (or 7.7% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $8,808,846 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 364,481 residents less than five years old, (7.3% of residents), 1,227,763 less than eighteen years old (24.4% of residents), and 533,580 of the population of Colorado was over the age of sixty-five (10.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.6%. The population classified as white was 4,495,567 (89.5%), black: 221,919 (4.4%), Asian: 136,984 (2.7%), two or more races: 100,344 (2.0%), Hispanic or Latino: 1,018,204 (20.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Colorado was $34,661,144 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $92,092,155 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $52,226,983 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $159490031 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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