Colorado in the top 10 for population growth

Colorado isn’t one of the biggest states in the nation yet population-wise, but it’s growing faster than most bigger states are.

A U.S. Census Bureau report out today says that Colorado ranks seventh among the states for percentage growth of its population between 2015 and 2016, and eighth for the total number of new residents gained since last year.

Colorado added an estimated 91,726 people over the last year, for a total of 5,540,545, topping 5.5 million residents for the first time.

That’s a growth rate of 1.68 percent. Of the 10 biggest states population-wise, only Florida is growing faster.

Ahead of Colorado for percentage growth in population since last year: Utah (2.03 percent), Nevada (1.95 percent), Idaho (1.83 percent), Florida (1.82 percent), Washington (1.78 percent) and Oregon (1.71 percent).

California remains the nation’s most populous state, with 39,250,017 residents, followed by Texas (27,862,596), Florida (20,612,439), New York (19,745,289) and Illinois (12,801,539)...

Nationally, the U.S. population grew by 0.7 percent over the last year, to 323.1 million, the report said...

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