Denver Post: 5 suburbs outrun Denver for population gains in recovery (Colorado Springs: 2015, apartments)

[SkyDog77]

5 suburbs outrun Denver for population gains in recovery – The Denver Post

A lot of attention is paid to how fast Denver’s population is growing, and the city attracted a disproportionate share of newcomers to Colorado during the recovery, especially millennials seeking an urban experience.

But a study from Lawnstarter found five suburbs added people at a faster clip than Denver, and what they shared in common was an ability to add homes and apartments

Lone Tree, at 19 percent, had the fastest rate of population growth between 2010 and 2015 out of two dozen Denver suburbs studied, according to Lawnstarter, which relied on population counts from the American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau.

“Lone Tree grew, at least in part, thanks to the addition of multifamily housing. But it could be a chicken-and-egg thing — did the people come first, or did the housing come first?” said Rachel Welch, a spokeswoman for the Austin technology company.

The answer, based on the other faster growing cities, looks like chickens need room to lay their eggs. Commerce City ranked second after Lone Tree with a five-year change in population of 17 percent, while Broomfield ranked third with a 16 percent growth rate in its population.

Rounding out the top five were Castle Rock at 15 percent and Lochbuie, just north of Brighton, at 14 percent. All five are on the metro periphery, with room to grow.

Communities that were penned in against the mountains or built-out and surrounded by other cities had some of the slowest growth rates.

Edgewater and Wheat Ridge only managed to muster a 3 percent gain in population. Others on the slower growth list were Westminster, Sheridan and Lakewood with increases of 7 percent. Castle Pines, which is a small affluent community, had no growth from 2010 to 2015.

Normally, core cities haven’t had a lot to offer when it comes to new housing and that limited their ability to grow in earlier decades. But when it comes to apartment construction, Denver is unrivaled this cycle. And Forest City Stapleton remains the state’s fastest selling master-planned community, and one of the top in the country, despite the bottlenecks it suffered last year.

The availability of apartments and homes allowed Denver to grow its population 13.1 percent in the five-year period, no small accomplishment given the city counted 603,421 people back in 2010. That rose to 682,545 by 2015.

[Timmyy]

Commerce City? Interesting.

I drive through Lone Tree every day for work and it is growing in leaps and bounds. There is constant construction. The Charles Schwab campus is pretty big and the Sky Ridge Hospital is there too.

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by Timmyy

Commerce City? Interesting.

I drive through Lone Tree every day for work and it is growing in leaps and bounds. There is constant construction. The Charles Schwab campus is pretty big and the Sky Ridge Hospital is there too.

Important to note it is percentage change, not raw numbers.

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by Timmyy

Commerce City? ....

$$$$$ Boulder
$$$$ Denver
$$$ Commerce City
$$ Colorado Springs
$ Pueblo

Mystery solved

[davebarnes]

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/2...-pace-slowing/

"Denver’s sizzling population growth has lost more of its pop.

The city added 9,844 residents in the year that ended July 1, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday. Its official population estimate on that date was 704,621, marking the passing of a new milestone — 700,000 residents — in the city’s long-running population boom.

But for the second straight year, the City and County of Denver’s annual growth rate, at 1.4 percent, reflected a slowing pace, a Denver Post analysis found. That rate was well below the 2 percent level that the city had exceeded for five straight years — peaking at nearly 2.8 percent in 2015, when the city added 18,347 people, according to revised census figures."

[davebarnes]

Colorado employers add more than 8,000 jobs in February, unemployment rate holds steady

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/n...-000-jobs.html

"Employers in Colorado added 8,600 nonfarm payroll jobs in February, outpacing previous months.

Those new jobs brought the total number of jobs to 2,701,800 jobs, according to the survey of business establishments released Friday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

The monthly gain of 8,600 non-farm payroll jobs was higher than the state's 12-month average gain of 3,817 jobs, according to the CDLE data. And the gains topped previous months when the average gain was 4,800 jobs."

[DenverBrian]

Originally Posted by Timmyy

Commerce City? Interesting.

IIRC, the Reunion development is a Commerce City address.

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by SkyDog77

5 suburbs outrun Denver for population gains in recovery – The Denver Post

I often wonder if, when people talk about "Denver's" growth, if they aren't really talking about the overall metro and not just Denver proper.

I know just from reading some of the queries on this board that many don't realize that Aurora, etc. are cities in their own right and not just neighborhoods in Denver.


In any event, the report doesn't surprise me since people are looking for many different things when they look for housing.
Not to mention the housing costs themselves.

[TCHP]

Originally Posted by TigerLily24

I often wonder if, when people talk about "Denver's" growth, if they aren't really talking about the overall metro and not just Denver proper.

I know just from reading some of the queries on this board that many don't realize that Aurora, etc. are cities in their own right and not just neighborhoods in Denver.


In any event, the report doesn't surprise me since people are looking for many different things when they look for housing.
Not to mention the housing costs themselves.

Exactly. To most new comers, the whole of the metro area is "Denver". Heck, I can even recall an occasion once on the national news when Colo Spgs was referred to as a suburb of Denver, and we're an hour away.

[Willy702]

Is there a major metro area where this situation doesn't exist? Every big city has a lack of land to develop so their suburbs see much higher percentage growth rates. To think a major newspaper had to write this story as if this is news is crazy. Then again I guess it gets more people to click on it than just saying here are the five fastest growing suburbs in the Denver metro area so there's the "readers are dumb and don't know any better" angle to it as well.