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<br /> ,"'.'... ,1.' <br /> TABLE 3 . .~. ,.. <br /> COMPONENTS OF POPULATION CHANGE <br /> El Paso County <br /> 1970-1979 <br /> Net Total <br />Year Births Oeaths Migration Change <br />1970 5,445 1,425 12,980 17,000 <br />1971 5,595 1,497 17,302 21,400 <br />1972 5,454 1,583 10,629 14,500 <br />1973 5,807 1,634 -1,473 2,700 <br />1974 5,729 1,563 -2,266 1,900 <br />1975 5,837 1,574 2,137 6,400 <br />1976 5,696 1,607 1,511 5,600 <br />1977 5,387 1,513 9,726 13,600 <br />1978 5,632 1,650 7,618 11 , 600 <br />1979 5,755 1,690 535 4,600 <br />Numbers are subject to revision upon receipt of detailed 1980 Census data. <br /> <br />Note: Births and deaths are from the Colorado Department of Health. Fig- <br />ures for 1979 are preliminary and are subject to revision. Net mi- <br />gration was calculated as a residual. <br /> <br />Source: Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments, Housing Market Analysis, <br />1980. <br /> <br />increased by 71 %. Annual growth rates <br />during this period widely fluctuated from <br />a high of 13% to a low of 1.8%. Over the <br />1970s, the City's average annual growth <br />rote has been 6.6%. <br /> <br />Although the City of Colorado Springs <br />accounts for only 5% of the area of EI <br />Paso County, the City represented nearly <br />70% of the County's 1980 population of <br />333, 100. Despite rapid growth over the <br />past decade, EI Paso County has dropped <br />from the second to the third most <br />populous county in the State.4 The Pikes <br />Peak Region, composed of EI Paso, Park <br />and Teller Counties, had a 1980 <br />population of 346,300 with nearly 96% of <br />these persons residing in EI Paso County. <br /> <br />POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS <br />COMPONENTS OF GROWTH <br /> <br />The two major components of population <br /> <br />growth are natural increase/decrease and <br />in-migration/out-migration. Births minus <br />deaths yields a figure known as the net <br />natural increase. During 1979, there were <br />5,755 births in EI Paso County and 1,690 <br />deaths, yielding a net natural increase of <br />4,065 persons. Net migration is the <br />number of people moving into an area <br />minus those moving out. It was estimated <br />that net migration into the County was <br />535 persons in 1979. Table 3 and Figure 2 <br />indicate the trends in births, deaths and <br />net migration and the relationship of <br />these factors to total change in <br />population during the 1970s. As can be <br />seen, net migration fluctuated widely <br />from a positive net migration of 17,302 in <br />1971 to a loss, or out-migration, of 2,266 <br />people in 1974. The major reason for this <br />fluctuation is related to variations in <br />economic growth in the community. For <br />example, in 1972, the number of new jobs <br />in 'the area increased by about 9,500, <br />while in 1975, only 1,900 new jobs were <br /> <br />16 <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />r <br />