{"id":1301830,"date":"2018-12-27T06:53:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T13:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=439448"},"modified":"2018-12-27T06:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T13:53:22","slug":"with-80000-new-residents-colorado-is-the-seventh-fastest-growing-state-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/with-80000-new-residents-colorado-is-the-seventh-fastest-growing-state-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"With 80,000 new residents, Colorado is the seventh-fastest growing state in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People just can&#8217;t stay away from Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The Centennial state grew by nearly 80,000 people last year, making it the seventh fastest-growing state in the country, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado&#8217;s population grew by 1.4 percent between July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018. Nevada and Idaho topped the list at 2.1 percent growth.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the U.S. population grew by 0.6 percent during the one-year period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many states have seen fewer births and more deaths in recent years,&#8221; said Sandra Johnson, a demographer\/statistician in the Population Division of the Census Bureau. &#8220;If those states are not gaining from either domestic or international migration, they will experience either low population growth or outright decline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colorado&#8217;s current population is estimated to be 5,695,564, nearly 700,000 higher than in 2010. That 13.2 percent growth is the fourth highest among all states over that time period.<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the full story via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/12\/26\/colorado-ancillary-cannabis-marijuana-businesses\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/priority\/main-carousel\/with-80000-new-residents-colorado-is-the-seventh-fastest-growing-state-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People just can&#8217;t stay away from Colorado. The Centennial state grew by nearly 80,000 people last year, making it the seventh fastest-growing state in the country, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Colorado&#8217;s population grew by 1.4 percent between July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018. Nevada and Idaho topped the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 19:28:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}