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Population loss as in major -- 50% or more.
Source: Wikipedia (San Juan County, Silverton)
Population loss by degrees: 80-90%, 70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.
- 29.8% - San Juan County
- 39.4% - Colorado
- 30.9% - U.S.
Percentage of population 65 and older:
- 23.4% - San Juan County
- 14.2% - Colorado
- 15.6% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
- 13.6% - San Juan County
- 10.3% - Colorado
- 12.3% - U.S.
San Juan County has voted Democratic in the past 4 presidential elections: 52.1% for Kerry in 2004, 52.2% and 52.6% for Obama in 2008 and 2012, and 52.4% for Clinton in 2016.
Related reading:
Is Disentis Skiing’s Next Big Secret? (The New York Times, 12/10/2010)
The scene brought to mind an inflated version of Mineral Basin at Snowbird, or a steeper version of Vail’s back bowls. But Val Gronda reminded me of no place so much as Silverton — Colorado’s no-frills backcountry ski area where a single lift deposits skiers atop nearly 2,000 acres of tilted bowls, scare-your-mother cliffs and avalanche-prone gullies.
Other Colorado population loss posts:
Sedgwick County/Julesburg. (8/28/2019)
Washington County/Akron. (8/29/2019)
Cheyenne County/Cheyenne Wells. (8/30/2019)
Kiowa County/Eads. (8/31/2019)
Baca County/Springfield. (8/31/2019)
Las Animas County/Trinidad. (9/1/2019)
Huerfano County/Walsenburg. (9/1/2019)
Mineral County/Creede. (9/2/2019)
Hinsdale County/Lake City. (9/2/2019)
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