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MEMORANDUM
DATE: January 29, 2020
TO: Mayor Wade Troxell and City Councilmembers
THRU: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
Jeff Mihelich, Deputy City Manager
Caryn Champine, Planning Development and Transportation Director
Tom Leeson, Community Development and Neighborhood Services Director
Rebecca Everette, Development Review Manager
FROM: Pete Wray, Senior Planner
RE: Update to City of Fort Collins Population Estimate
The purpose of this memo is to inform and update Council on the annual City of Fort Collins
population estimate.
Background
City Planning staff monitors this demographic trend each year, working directly with the State
Demographer Office (SDO). A final estimate by the SDO for the present year (2020) is typically
not completed until July of the following year (2021). Staff relies on the SDO calculations for a
final estimate and has recently received an updated City population that will replace our
preliminary estimate for 2019 (see attached Table).
Using permits issued for new housing units, the City has produced a preliminary population
estimate of 174,871 for 2020, which can be seen in greater detail in the attached Table. The
City of Fort Collins estimate and state estimate for 2020 will be replaced by the 2020 Census
population count once released in March 2021.
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