Rank 25 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Colorado

All three channels point the same way in Colorado: arrivals from other states, arrivals from other countries, and births over deaths. Growth here does not depend on any single door.

Measured as counts rather than rates, the channel that moved the most people in Colorado over 2021–2024 was international migration. That is a statement about volume, not direction: a channel can be the largest by losing.

Domestic migration+23,807+4.0 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migrationmoved the most people+82,822+13.9 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths+63,073+10.6 per 1,000 residentsNatural change. Not migration at all, and frequently mistaken for it.

Year by year

Counts of people. Bars share one scale across all 4 years and all three channels, so a short bar is a small number rather than a rescaled one.

Colorado, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+5,817	+3,911	62,138	46,475	+15,663
2022	+6,227	+18,507	62,659	49,577	+13,082
2023	+6,341	+27,177	62,309	45,275	+17,034
2024	+5,422	+33,227	62,497	45,203	+17,294

Ranked just above and below Colorado

24Indiana+4.1 / 1,000 26Wisconsin+0.5 / 1,000

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Vintage-year 2020 is published for a partial period and carries no companion rate, so it is excluded rather than shown alongside four full years it cannot be compared with. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). Source file