PROJ00251

• Contract/PO #: C153375
• Contractor Name: Canon City, City of
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 12
• County: Fremont
• Bill Number: SB 81-439
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

TABLE 9
POPULATIOll 14 YEARS AND OVER
BY MARITAL STATUS AND SEX

Male

Can on City -

Sin91e
Married
Di vorced
Widowed

1,092
2,371
413
185

Eas t Canon -

Single
Married
Divorced
Widowed

141
431
22
21

Fema 1 e

543
1,923
128
867

66
447
12
III

Total

Percent
of Community

State-Wi de
Percent

I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I

1,635
4,294
541
1,052

24.7%
63.6%
4.1%
6.3%

21. 7%
57.1%
7.2%
14.0%

207
878
34
132

16.6%
70.1%
2.7%
10.6%

24.7%
63.6%
4.1%
6.3%

Source: State of Colorado, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Enumeration District
Surrmaries, 1970.

Population Estimates

In comprehensive plannin9, there is a definite concern with the future. Thus,
the Canon City Comprehensive Plan is obligated to project future needs, forecast
future conditions, and try to anticipate future trends. The task of examining
the future in the Canon City plannin9 area is rather difficult since the area is
faced with a tremendous amount of uncertainity, a wide range of possibilities, and
a constantly changing set of circumstances. In spite of these large uncertain-
ities, and in spite of the cha~ce of inaccuracy in anticipating the future,
the estimates must be made.

Table 10 presents a series of recent population estimates that have been pre-
pared for Canon City, Fremont County, East Canon, Lincoln Park, the Canon
City planning area and for the regional area from Canon City to Florence.
The pnojections were extracted from seven different sources with the time
spans ranging from 1978 to the year 2000.

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As shown in Table 10, there is a wide variation among the estimates, although
all of the sources estimated rather large rates of growth throughout the
planning area and Fremont County. The population estimates for Canon City
range from 15,010 persons in 1978 to 25,800 persons (excluding East Canon)
in the year 2000. The estimates for the planning area range from 20,210
persons in 1978 to 32,000 persons in 2000 while the County's population
estimates range from 27,303 persons in 1978 to 57,730 persons in 2000. In
some instances it is believed that the low estimations have already been
surpassed while many of the higher range figures generally indicate that the

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