The Denver Regional Council of Governments foresees shortages in services ranging from Meals on Wheels to institutional care for people over 75, who are mostly likely to need daily living assistance. Yeah, we've got Meals on Wheels. We don't have an adequate support network. The latest round of census data provides new details about the ages, sex, family relationships and housing of Colorado residents, along with breakdowns of its growing Asian and Hispanic populations. In Colorado, as in the United States, more people than ever are homeowners.
Families represent a shrinking portion of Colorado households.
Married couples now occupy barely half the households in the state, while more unrelated people are living together. Males now outnumber females slightly in Colorado. The 1990s brought clusters of Asian immigrants to towns that previously had none. The number of state residents of Asian Indian and Vietnamese descent, while small, more than doubled in the decade. Thanks to the baby boomers, the median age of Colorado residents jumped two years in the 1990s, to 34.3 years.