[quote=nocommonsense]What are you talking about? Hispanics are the majority here too in SD 🙂 No I don’t consider them a minority. I was thinking of asians.[/quote]
Acc. to the my link above, in 2008, Denver County had:
50.9% Cauc (C)
34.3% Hisp (H)
10.0% Black (B)
3.4% Asian (A)
1.4% Native Am. (NA)
.2% Haw/Pac Is (PI)
Since Denver is a “metro area” comprised of four counties, I will add in some more stats.
Arapahoe County (home of high-paying jobs at the “Tech Cntr”) had:
66.0% C
17.7% H
9.8% B
4.5% A
.8% NA
.2% PI
Jefferson County had:
79.9% C
14.2% H
2.6% A
1.6% B
1.0% NA
.2 PI
Adams County had:
56.1% C
35.6% H
3.5% B
3.3% A
1.4% NA
.2 PI
Acc. to http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4333236, Weld County, CO had the HIGHEST FORECLOSURE RATE in the nation in 2006. “Greeley” (county seat) is a “bedroom community” (wheat field, stockyard and giant grasshopper territory with a smattering of oil rigs back in my day) located 65+ miles NE of Denver. Thousands of buyers moved there in recent years and attempted to commute to work to Denver (sound like RIV CO here, folks?).
FWIW, here are the demos for Weld County:
68.9% C
27.4% H
1.3% A
1.1% B
1.0% AI
.2 PI
Acc. to the 2008 Zillow map, posted earlier in this thread, Jefferson County had the two most stable homeowner zips (both located in the foothills of the Rockies) followed by Denver County for the 3rd and 4th most stable-homeowner zip (both urban core zips).
I just wanted to contribute to dispel any misconceptions about CO being percieved as “lacking in diversity.” nocommonsense, A HIGHER PERCENTAGE of Denver County and Adams County’s population is Hispanic than SD County’s population, but there are definitely fewer Asians in CO than here.
Bear in mind that CO’s ENTIRE POPULATION for 2008 was just over 5.5 million.
