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<br />OJl097 <br /> <br />Draft - 9/81 <br /> <br />percent of Teller County are included for present population pur- <br />poses.) The role played by El Paso and Pueblo Counties is key to <br />the region's population picture. ~ccording to the 1979 estimate, <br />El Paso County alone contained more than half of the population <br />of the region (53.6 percent). Pueblo County, by itself, con- <br />tained 22.~ percent. Thus, these two counties together accounted <br />for more than three quarters of the region's population (76.0 <br />percent). The major cities of Colorado Springs and Pueblo are <br />responsible for the bulk of this populat ion. It is common know- <br />ledge that most of Colorado's inhabitants live along the Front <br />Range CorrIdor. ~s pointed out above, the large metropolitan <br />areas of Denver, Fort Collins, Greeley, Colorado Springs and <br />Pueblo provide most Front Range population. It is important to <br />recognize that, according to the 1979 estimates, the ~rkansas <br />Region and the Platte Region constitute 87.1 percent of Colo- <br />rado's population! <br />Contrasting with these two populous counties, the rest of <br />the region is inhabited by comparatively few peopie. By the 1979 <br />e~timates there are ten counties in the region with populations <br />of iess than 10,000. Many of these smaller counties may very <br />well lose population over the next ten to twenty years, or at <br />least experience comparatively slow growth rates. The low pro- <br />jections for 1990 for Custer, Cheyenne, Otero, Huerfano and Las <br />Animas Counties predict that the 1990 population will be less <br />than the estimated 1979 population, as does the same project ion <br />for Pueblo County. In several smaller counties, policy interven- <br /> <br />tions which were included to double base employment in the pro- <br /> <br />jections now seem highly unlikely. Specifically, a meat packing <br /> <br />8 <br /> <br />~ <br />