Douglas County, Colorado

administration
Courthouse
US state :	Colorado
Administrative headquarters :	Castle Rock
Address of the administrative headquarters:	100 Third Street Castle Rock, CO 80104
Foundation :	November 1, 1861
Demographics
Residents :	285,465 (2010)
Population density :	131.2 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2183 km²
Water surface :	7 km²
map

Website : www.douglas.co.us

The Douglas County [ dʌgləs ] is a county in the central part of the US state of Colorado . The county seat is Castle Rock .

geography

The southwestern part of the county is crossed by the Rampart Range , the easternmost mountain range of the Rocky Mountains . This densely forested mountain landscape is separated by the South Platte from the Front Range and at the same time forms the border to the neighboring district of Jefferson . Like the southern parts of the Front Range, the Rampart Range has been declared a Pike National Forest.

It is located south of the Denver metropolitan area and is enclosed by the districts of Arapahoe in the north, Elbert in the east, El Paso and Teller in the south and Jefferson in the west.

history

Douglas, named after the US politician Stephen Arnold Douglas , has existed in its current district boundaries since 1874, but was one of the original in 1861 with the administrative headquarters of Franktown (1861–63) and California Ranch (1863–74) on the newly created Colorado Territory 17 administrative units. While the boundaries in the west on the South Platte River to Jefferson and those in the north to Arapahoe never changed, Douglas lost the entire eastern region, which originally extended to the state border of Colorado.

population

Douglas' population is growing rapidly. In the years from 1990 to 2005, the number of inhabitants more than quadrupled from around 60,000 to over 250,000. Even if the four cities of Parker, Castle Rock, Lone Tree and Larkspur also recorded high growth, this development is mainly due to the new development area around the Highlands Ranch . It lies on the northernmost border of Douglas - south of Littleton and east of Chatfield Lake . The residential area adjoining the Denver metropolitan area has no urban status, but with around 83,000 inhabitants is by far the largest town in Douglas.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1870	1388	-
1880	2486	79.1%
1890	3036	22.1%
1900	3120	2.8%
1910	3192	2.3%
1920	3517	10.2%
1930	3498	-0.5%
1940	3496	-0.1%
1950	3507	0.3%
1960	4816	37.3%
1970	8407	74.6%
1980	25,153	199.2%
1990	60,391	140.1%
2000	175,766	191%
2010	285,465	62.4%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010 Douglas County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Roxborough State Park

The Lake Clinton

According to the 2000 census , the county had 175,766 people. There were 60,924 households and 49,835 families. The population density was 81 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 92.77 percent white, 0.95 percent African American, 0.41 percent Native American, 2.51 percent Asian, 0.06 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 1.43 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.88 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.06 percent of the population.

Of the 60,924 households, 47.2 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 73.8 percent were married couples living together, 5.7 percent were single mothers. 18.2 percent were not families. 13.3 percent were single households and 1.9 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.88 and the average family size was 3.19.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 31.6 percent of residents under the age of 18, 4.8 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 37.9 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, and 21.6 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 4.2 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 99.7 males, and for every 100 females aged 18 and over there were 97.4 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 82,929 , and the median income for a family is $ 88,482. Males had a median income of $ 60,729 versus $ 38,965 for females. The per capita income was $ 34,848. 2.1 percent of the population and 1.6 percent of families lived below the poverty line. This included 1.9 percent of the population under the age of 18 and 3.7 percent of the population aged 65 and over.

Places in Douglas County

Part of the 300,000-inhabitant city of Aurora, which is mainly divided between the neighboring districts of Arapahoe and Adams, is in the Douglas district. The part of the population of auroras in Douglas is negligible. The largest town in Douglas, albeit not an independent town, is Highlands Ranch with around 83,000 inhabitants . The largest cities are Parker (38,418 inhabitants) and Castle Rock (35,210 inhabitants).