Today’s graduates are part of Generation Z, or Gen Z (for short). In 2025, there will be 84 more high school graduates compared to 2024, a 20.6% increase over the previous year in our coverage area.

Watkins said the current over-65 population, consisting primarily of Baby Boomers, came to Colorado mostly in the 1970s and ...

The fertility rate remains below the “replacement level” needed to keep the population stable — 2.1 children for each woman over her lifetime.