Crowley County, Colorado

Crowley County [ kɹaʊli ] is an administrative unit ( county ) in central to southeastern part of the U.S. state of Colorado. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Ordway.

Geography

Crowley is located in the Eastern Plains - east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in a sparsely populated region in the Arkansas Basin. While the northern part of the prefecture is a virtually uninhabited mountainous, originated in the southern part along the U.S. Federal Highway 96 Pueblo toward Kansas four smaller cities, of which only Ordway has more than 1000 inhabitants.

The Couty is located north of the Arkansas located on the Plains. It was created in 1911 from the northern part of the neighboring today Otero and is further enclosed by Pueblo to the west, Lincolnshire to the north and Kiowa in the east. Due to the uniform rectangular boundary line also includes the northwest by the district of El Paso, without which consists with him a common boundary line.

Demographic data

2000 2010

According to the census of 2000, there were 5,518 people in the county. There were 1,358 households, and 957 families. The population density was 3 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made ​​up of 82.95 percent White, 7.05 percent African American, 2.59 percent Native American, 0.82 percent Asian, 0.02 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 4.77 percent from other races groups; 1.81 percent were descended from two or more races. 22.54 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 1,358 households out of which 34.5 percent have children under the age of 18 living with them. 55.1 percent were married couples living together, 11.0 percent were single mothers. 29.5 percent were non-families. 25.7 percent of all households and 13.0 percent lived in people aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.12.

Based on the county the population was spread from 18.8 percent population under 18 years, 9.9 percent between 18 and 24 years, 39.6 percent between 25 and 44 years, 20.8 percent between 45 and 64 years and 10.8 percent were 65 years old or older. The average age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 205.4 males to 100 females age 18 and over, there were 240.9 males.

The median income for a household was $ 26,803, and the median income for a family was $ 32,162. Males have a median income of $ 20,813, women $ 21,920. The per capita income was $ 12,836. 18.5 percent of the population and 15.2 percent of families are below the poverty line. This included 23.6 percent of the population under the age of 18 and 13.5 percent of the population aged 65 and over.

Cities in the County

  • Crowley
  • Olney Springs
  • Ordway
  • Sugar City
  • Arkansas River (partial border to Otero )
  • Colorado Canal
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