Costilla County

administration
Costilla County Courthouse
US state :	Colorado
Administrative headquarters :	San Luis
Foundation :	November 1, 1861
Demographics
Residents :	3524 (2010)
Population density :	1.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	3187 km²
Water surface :	9 km²
map

Website : www.costilla-county.com

Costilla County [ kəsˈtiːjə ] is a ( county ) in the south of the US state Colorado . The county seat is San Luis .

geography

Costilla County is one of the 16 original counties of Colorado, named after the river of the same name, and lies at the transition from the San Luis Valley to the Sangre de Cristo ( The Blood of Christ ) mountain range . In the west, the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) - with over 3000 km one of the longest rivers in North America - forms a natural border with the neighboring Conejos . Furthermore, Costilla borders from north to east on the districts of Alamosa , Huerfano and Las Animas and on the New Mexico side on Taos and Colfax .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1870	1779	-
1880	2879	61.8%
1890	3491	21.3%
1900	4632	32.7%
1910	5498	18.7%
1920	5032	-8.5%
1930	5779	14.8%
1940	7533	30.4%
1950	6067	-19.5%
1960	4219	-30.5%
1970	3091	-26.7%
1980	3071	-0.6%
1990	3190	3.9%
2000	3663	14.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

The Blanca Peak

The east side of Mount Blanca

The Taylor Mountain

The county had 3,663 people as of the 2000 census . There were 1,503 households and 1,029 families. The population density was 1 person per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 60.91 percent white, 0.79 percent African American, 2.48 percent Native American, 1.01 percent Asian, 0.14 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 29.46 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 5.21 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 67.59 percent of the population.

Of the 1,503 households, 28.5 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 52.6 percent were married couples living together, 11.3 percent were single mothers. 31.5 percent were not families. 28.1 percent were single households and 11.6 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 2.98.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 25.0 percent of residents under 18 years of age, 6.6 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 23.3 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 28.3 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 16.8 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 99.8 males, and for every 100 females aged 18 and over there were 96.2 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 19,531 , and the median income for a family is $ 25,509. Males had a median income of $ 22,390 versus $ 16,121 for females. The per capita income was $ 10,748. 26.8 percent of the population and 21.3 percent of families are below the poverty line. These included 32.4 percent of the population under the age of 18 and 23.3 percent of the population aged 65 and over.

places

Rivers

Rio Grande (border river to Conejos County )

mountains

The Costilla district is completely traversed in the west by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains , in which more than a dozen four-thousand-meter peaks lie within the district boundaries .