North Central Colorado Urban Area

North Central Colorado Urban Area
North Central Colorado Urban Area
	Skyline of Downtown Denver
Interactive map of the; North Central Colorado Urban Area	City and County of Denver Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO MSA Boulder, CO MSA Greeley, CO MSA Fort Collins, CO MSA Other Counties in the Front Range corridor
	City and County of Denver Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO MSA Boulder, CO MSA Greeley, CO MSA Fort Collins, CO MSA Other Counties in the Front Range corridor
Country	United States
States	Colorado
Largest city	- Denver
Other principal cities	- Aurora; - Lakewood; - Thornton; - Arvada; - Westminster; - Centennial; - Highlands Ranch; - Castle Rock; - Broomfield; - Commerce City; - Boulder; - Greeley; - Longmont; - Fort Collins; - Loveland;
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)

The North Central Colorado Urban Area comprises the four contiguous metropolitan statistical areas in the north central region of the State of Colorado: the Denver–Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area, the Boulder Metropolitan Statistical Area, the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the Greeley Metropolitan Statistical Area. With the exception of southeastern Elbert County, southeastern Park County, and tiny portions of southern Douglas County, the entire North Central Colorado Urban Area is drained by the South Platte River and its tributaries. The North Central Colorado Urban Area is the central, and the most populous, of the three primary subregions of the Front Range Urban Corridor.

The North Central Colorado Urban Area had a population of 3,390,504 at the 2010 United States census, a 17.67% increase from the 2000 United States census.^[1] In 2010, 67.42% of Coloradans lived in the North Central Colorado Urban Area.

Extent

The North Central Colorado Urban Area^[1]
Core-based statistical area	2010 Census	County	2010 Census	2000 Census	Pop Change
Denver–Aurora–Broomfield, CO MSA	2,543,482	City and County of Denver, Colorado	600,158	554,636	+8.21%
		Arapahoe County, Colorado	572,003	487,967	+17.22%
		Jefferson County, Colorado	534,543	527,056	+1.42%
		Adams County, Colorado	441,603	363,857	+21.37%
		Douglas County, Colorado	285,465	175,766	+62.41%
		City and County of Broomfield, Colorado	55,889	0	NA
		Elbert County, Colorado	23,086	19,872	+16.17%
		Park County, Colorado	16,206	14,523	+11.59%
		Clear Creek County, Colorado	9,088	9,322	−2.51%
		Gilpin County, Colorado	5,441	4,757	+14.38%
Fort Collins-Loveland, CO MSA	299,630	Larimer County, Colorado	299,630	251,494	+19.14%
Boulder, CO MSA	294,567	Boulder County, Colorado	294,567	291,288	+1.13%
Greeley, CO MSA	252,825	Weld County, Colorado	252,825	180,936	+39.73%
Total			3,390,504	2,881,474	+17.67%