WSP04638

• File Number: 8136.500.10
• Description: Local Governments - Municipalities - Colorado Springs
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1981
• Author: Colorado Springs
• Title: Community Profile for the City of Colorado Springs
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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TABLE 4
GROWTH RATES FOR SELECTED ETHNIC GROUPS
El Paso County
1960-1980

1960a 1970b % Change % Change
1980 1960-70 1970-80
Total Population 143,742 235,972 333,100e 64 41
Total Minority Pop. 11,231 32,341 48,866d 188 51
Black 5,096 12,226 d 140 62
19,786d
Hispanic 6,135 20,115 29,080 288 44
Numbers are sUbject to revision upon receipt of detailed 1980 Census data.

Note: ~Bureau of the Census, April 1.
Bureau of the Census, April 1.
~Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments estimate.
Colorado Division of Planning, Colorado Population Reports, 1980.

Source: City Planning Department compilation, 1981.

TABLE 5
ESTIMATED POPULATION BY ETHNIC GROUP
El Paso County
1970-1980

EL PASO COUNTY
19701 19802
Ethnic Group # % # %
American Indian 639 .27 1,033 .31
Asian 2,336 .99 5,163 1. 55
Black 12,226 5.18 19,786 5.94
Spani s h 20,115 8.52 29,080 8.73
Anglo 200,656 85.03 278,038 83.47
Total 235,972 100.00% 333,100 100. 00%

STATE OF
COLORADO
19782
# %

12,499 .47
24,717 .93
100,727 3.78
364,097 13.67
2,162,068 81. 16
2,664,108 100.00%

Numbers are sUbject to revision upon receipt of detailed 1980 Census data.
Source: 1Bureau of the Census, Census of Population and Housing, April 1,
21970.
Colorado Division of Planning, Colorado Population Reports, 1980.

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