2000 vs. 2017 Total Employment Growth and Change
Colorado Employment Growth by County
2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change
Colorado Employment Growth by County
Douglas County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 150.02%
Rank = #1
Bent County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = -24.93%
Rank = #63
Montrose County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 18.78%
Rank = #29
With a spotlight on Montrose County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of employment across Colorado's 64 counties over the period 2000-2017.
Those counties whose employment growth registered above the statewide average over this period realized an increase in their statewide share of employment. Likewise, those counties whose employment growth registered below the statewide average experienced a decline in their relative share of employment statewide.
Statewide Snippets:
  • Over 2000-2017 employment grew in fifty-one Colorado counties while declining in twelve.
  • Employment growth in eleven counties outpaced the statewide average (28.88%), while growth in fifty-two counties trailed.
  • At the extremes of the distribution, Douglas County posted the highest growth of employment (150.02%), while Bent County placed last by logging a -24.93% decline.
  • The spread in employment growth between the highest (Douglas County, 150.02%) and lowest (Bent County, -24.93%) over 2000-2017 equated to 174.96% ( = 150.02%-24.93%).
  • Employment growth statewide is but a weighted metric that stems from each county's share of employment statewide. On this point, as the largest county in Colorado, Denver County's net employment growth over 2000-2017 of 113,422 made up 13.46% of the total net growth statewide (842,706):

Denver County: Percent Share of Colorado's
Employment Growth, 2000-2017:

13.46% = (113,422 / 842,706) x 100
Montrose County Snippets:
  • Over 2000-2017, Montrose County posted a 18.78% net gain in employment.
  • Montrose County was joined by fifty-one other counties whose employment growth over 2000-2017 registered below the statewide average (28.88%).
  • Ranked #29 among Colorado's 64 counties, Montrose County's employment growth (18.78%) trailed the statewide average of 28.88% by a 10.10% margin.
  • Montrose County's net employment growth (18.78%, #29) over 2000-2017 registered just above that of Arapahoe County (18.44%, #30) and just below that of Teller County (19.30%, #28).
  • Montrose County's share of employment statewide slipped from 0.68% in 2000 to 0.63% in 2017, resulting in a share-shift of -0.05%.

Data Definition

The BEA employment series for states and local areas comprises estimates of the number of jobs, full-time plus part-time, by place of work. Full-time and part-time jobs are counted at equal weight. Employees, sole proprietors, and active partners are included, but unpaid family workers and volunteers are not included. Proprietors employment consists of the number of sole proprietorships and the number of partners in partnerships. The description "by place of work" applies to the wage and salary portion of the series and, with relatively little error, to the entire series. The proprietors employment portion of the series, however, is more nearly by place of residence because, for nonfarm sole proprietorships, the estimates are based on IRS tax data that reflect the address from which the proprietor's individual tax return is filed, which is usually the proprietor's residence. The nonfarm partnership portion of the proprietors employment series reflects the tax-filing address of the partnership, which may be either the residence of one of the partners or the business address of the partnership. The employment estimates are designed to be consistent with the estimates of wages and salaries and proprietors' income that are part of the personal income series. The employment estimates are based on the same sets of source data as the corresponding earnings estimates and are prepared with parallel methodologies. Two forms of proprietors' income-the income of limited partnerships and the income of tax-exempt cooperatives-have no corresponding employment estimates.

United States. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Income Division.
Regional Definitions. 2024. Web.
https://apps.bea.gov/regional/definitions/

Employment Growth by County
2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change
Employment Growth by County
View Distribution Totals as: Actual Percent
     
 
County Distribution of Employment Growth, 2000 vs. 2017
More
than
50%
50%
to
40%
40%
to
30%
30%
to
20%
20%
to
10%
10%
to
0%
0%
or
Below
Suppressed
or
Undefined
Total
2000 vs. 2017
2
4
5
14
14
12
12
12
75
 
     
Employment by County, 2017
Employment by County, 2017
Denver County 2017
Employment = 675,350
Percent of State = 17.96%
Rank = #1
San Juan County 2017
Employment = 594
Percent of State = 0.02%
Rank = #64
Montrose County 2017
Employment = 23,708
Percent of State = 0.63%
Rank = #18
Again highlighting Montrose County's position, the bar graph above displays the disposition by county of 2017 employment statewide (3,760,708).

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Statewide Snippets:
  • Ranked #1, Denver County's 2017 employment totaled 675,350, equating to 17.96% of the statewide total.
  • Ranked last (#64), San Juan County's employment of 594 in 2017 comprised just 0.02% of the total statewide. San Juan County's employment in 2017 equates to less than .01% to that of Denver County's.
  • Denver County's 2017 employment (675,350) exceeded the combined employment (646,942) of Colorado's fifty-four smallest counties.
Montrose County Snippets:
  • Montrose County's employment in 2017 ranked #18, amounting to 0.63% of the statewide total.
  • Montrose County's employment of 23,708 placed below that of Pitkin County's (24,604, #17), and just above that of Routt County's (23,486, #19).
  • Montrose County's employment of 23,708 exceeds the combined total (21,759) of Colorado's fourteen smallest counties.
Employment by County, 2017
Employment by County, 2017
View Distribution Totals as: Actual Percent
     
 
County Distribution of Employment, 2017
More
than
250,000
250,000
to
200,000
200,000
to
150,000
150,000
to
100,000
100,000
to
50,000
50,000
or
Below
Total
2017
6
1
2
0
3
52
64
 
     

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Colorado Employment by County:
2000 vs. 2017
 
2000
 
2017
 
2000 - 2017
 
 
 
 
188,215
6.45
 
275,832
7.33
 
46.55
87,617
10.40
0.88
 
9,718
0.33
 
11,202
0.30
 
15.27
1,484
0.18
-0.04
 
388,642
13.32
 
460,303
12.24
 
18.44
71,661
8.50
-1.08
 
5,959
0.20
 
8,449
0.22
 
41.79
2,490
0.30
0.02
 
2,806
0.10
 
2,586
0.07
 
-7.84
-220
-0.03
-0.03
 
2,551
0.09
 
1,915
0.05
 
-24.93
-636
-0.08
-0.04
 
237,310
8.13
 
269,048
7.15
 
13.37
31,738
3.77
-0.98
 
N
N
 
50,678
1.35
 
N
N
N
 
9,478
0.32
 
12,918
0.34
 
36.29
3,440
0.41
0.02
 
1,529
0.05
 
1,616
0.04
 
5.69
87
0.01
-0.01
 
5,811
0.20
 
4,936
0.13
 
-15.06
-875
-0.10
-0.07
 
3,067
0.11
 
3,322
0.09
 
8.31
255
0.03
-0.02
 
1,374
0.05
 
1,677
0.04
 
22.05
303
0.04
0.00
 
1,780
0.06
 
1,746
0.05
 
-1.91
-34
0.00
-0.01
 
1,869
0.06
 
2,245
0.06
 
20.12
376
0.04
0.00
 
12,943
0.44
 
15,678
0.42
 
21.13
2,735
0.32
-0.03
 
561,928
19.26
 
675,350
17.96
 
20.18
113,422
13.46
-1.30
 
975
0.03
 
1,196
0.03
 
22.67
221
0.03
0.00
 
77,333
2.65
 
193,351
5.14
 
150.02
116,018
13.77
2.49
 
38,381
1.32
 
47,606
1.27
 
24.04
9,225
1.09
-0.05
 
7,591
0.26
 
9,902
0.26
 
30.44
2,311
0.27
0.00
 
334,881
11.48
 
413,831
11.00
 
23.58
78,950
9.37
-0.47
 
19,322
0.66
 
20,092
0.53
 
3.99
770
0.09
-0.13
 
29,300
1.00
 
39,223
1.04
 
33.87
9,923
1.18
0.04
 
5,920
0.20
 
6,056
0.16
 
2.30
136
0.02
-0.04
 
9,864
0.34
 
11,480
0.31
 
16.38
1,616
0.19
-0.03
 
11,309
0.39
 
13,781
0.37
 
21.86
2,472
0.29
-0.02
 
619
0.02
 
606
0.02
 
-2.10
-13
0.00
-0.01
 
3,581
0.12
 
3,338
0.09
 
-6.79
-243
-0.03
-0.03
 
1,054
0.04
 
1,049
0.03
 
-0.47
-5
0.00
-0.01
 
282,376
9.68
 
348,111
9.26
 
23.28
65,735
7.80
-0.42
 
1,151
0.04
 
1,292
0.03
 
12.25
141
0.02
-0.01
 
4,989
0.17
 
5,118
0.14
 
2.59
129
0.02
-0.03
 
2,946
0.10
 
3,528
0.09
 
19.76
582
0.07
-0.01
 
31,137
1.07
 
41,570
1.11
 
33.51
10,433
1.24
0.04
 
166,868
5.72
 
233,079
6.20
 
39.68
66,211
7.86
0.48
 
7,664
0.26
 
7,698
0.20
 
0.44
34
0.00
-0.06
 
3,299
0.11
 
3,588
0.10
 
8.76
289
0.03
-0.02
 
12,574
0.43
 
12,672
0.34
 
0.78
98
0.01
-0.09
 
69,890
2.40
 
88,780
2.36
 
27.03
18,890
2.24
-0.03
 
693
0.02
 
887
0.02
 
27.99
194
0.02
0.00
 
7,252
0.25
 
7,302
0.19
 
0.69
50
0.01
-0.05
 
13,638
0.47
 
14,936
0.40
 
9.52
1,298
0.15
-0.07
 
19,959
0.68
 
23,708
0.63
 
18.78
3,749
0.44
-0.05
 
15,158
0.52
 
17,164
0.46
 
13.23
2,006
0.24
-0.06
 
10,192
0.35
 
9,040
0.24
 
-11.30
-1,152
-0.14
-0.11
 
2,520
0.09
 
3,611
0.10
 
43.29
1,091
0.13
0.01
 
5,195
0.18
 
5,983
0.16
 
15.17
788
0.09
-0.02
 
2,789
0.10
 
2,890
0.08
 
3.62
101
0.01
-0.02
 
21,393
0.73
 
24,604
0.65
 
15.01
3,211
0.38
-0.08
 
8,174
0.28
 
6,904
0.18
 
-15.54
-1,270
-0.15
-0.10
 
70,788
2.43
 
80,215
2.13
 
13.32
9,427
1.12
-0.29
 
4,097
0.14
 
4,305
0.11
 
5.08
208
0.02
-0.03
 
6,815
0.23
 
6,517
0.17
 
-4.37
-298
-0.04
-0.06
 
18,588
0.64
 
23,486
0.62
 
26.35
4,898
0.58
-0.01
 
2,706
0.09
 
3,253
0.09
 
20.21
547
0.06
-0.01
 
406
0.01
 
594
0.02
 
46.31
188
0.02
0.00
 
7,218
0.25
 
9,056
0.24
 
25.46
1,838
0.22
-0.01
 
1,642
0.06
 
1,460
0.04
 
-11.08
-182
-0.02
-0.02
 
25,551
0.88
 
29,623
0.79
 
15.94
4,072
0.48
-0.09
 
10,336
0.35
 
12,331
0.33
 
19.30
1,995
0.24
-0.03
 
2,994
0.10
 
2,937
0.08
 
-1.90
-57
-0.01
-0.02
 
95,735
3.28
 
156,081
4.15
 
63.03
60,346
7.16
0.87
 
6,159
0.21
 
7,373
0.20
 
19.71
1,214
0.14
-0.02
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2,918,002
100.00
 
3,760,708
100.00
 
28.88
842,706
100.00
0.00
 
2,508,819
85.98
 
3,283,867
87.32
 
30.89
775,048
91.97
1.34
 
409,183
14.02
 
476,841
12.68
 
16.53
67,658
8.03
-1.34
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
165,370,800
 
196,394,100
 
18.76
31,023,300
 
142,396,424
 
172,909,128
 
21.43
30,512,704
 
22,974,376
 
23,484,972
 
2.22
510,596
Source: Calculations by the Colorado Regional Economic Analysis Project (CO-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis
November 2023
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