Today the US Census Bureau released the 2010 counts for the US and its states.
The count for the US was 308,745,538. This represents a 27.3 million increase over the decade. The change in percentage terms was 9.7 percent.
In percentage terms, this was the second slowest growing decade -- second to the decade of the 30s. In absolute terms however, the 27.3 million ranks third fastest behind the decade of the 90s and the 50s.
For Colorado, the population count came in at 5,029,196 which is a 727,915 or 16.92 percent increase since 2000 and ranks our state as no. nine in percentage change over the decade.
Colorado will not gain or lose a US congressional seat. All other states being equal, we would have had to have a population count of approximately 5.309 million to get an eighth seat.
