2020 U.S. Census Results: The Changing Demographics Of Boulder

BOULDER, CO — The last 10 years have marked a dramatic shift in the demographic makeup of the United States, with a marked shrinkage of the white population and the rapid growth of the Hispanic community, according to the U.S. 2020 census.

These changes were reflected in Boulder, where the share of the white population grew by 2.26 percent while the Hispanic population grew by 34.48 percent.

The population of Boulderites who identify as Asian American grew by 52.13 percent, and those in the city that identify as Black grew by 57.61 percent.

Boulder also showed a 193.9 percent increase in the number of people who identified themselves as multiracial, although the reasons are complex. Experts say the increase reflects changes in the way people identify themselves as well the number of children born to parents of mixed races or ethnicities, along with changes in the wording of census forms themselves.

Colorado's population has grown by 14.8 percent over the past decade — almost twice the rate of the rest of the nation: the U.S. on the whole saw the population grow by 7.4 percent.

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The Hispanic boom accounted for almost half of the overall U.S. population growth, which was the slowest since the Great Depression. By comparison, the non-Hispanic growth rate over the decade was 4.3 percent. The Hispanic share of the U.S. population grew to 18.7 percent, up from 16.3 percent in 2010.

The share of the white population fell from 63.7 percent in 2010 to 57.8 percent in 2020, the lowest on record, driven by falling birthrates among white women compared with Hispanic and Asian women. The number of non-Hispanic white people shrank from 196 million in 2010 to 191 million.

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Reporting and writing from The Associated Press was used in this report.