Colorado is a top 10 state for population growth over the last year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today.
The state ranks eighth among the 50 states and D.C. for total residents added between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017 — 77,049 — and ninth for rate of growth — about 1.4 percent.
That growth rate is almost twice the national population increase of 0.72 percent between 2016 and 2017, the Census report says.
Colorado’s population now stands at 5,607,154, up from 5,530,105 last year and 5,029,325 in 2010.
