According to an article in The Denver Post on March 23, 2018, Denver growth is forecasted 101,403 more in 7 years, but pace slow again. Denver's sizzling population growth has lost more of its pop. The city added 9,844 residents in the year that ended July 1, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday. Its official population estimate on that date was 704,621, marking the passing of a new milestone, 700,000 residents in the city's long-running population boom.

Although for the second straight year, the city and county of Denver's annual growth rate, at 1.4 percent, reflected a slowing pace, a Denver Post analysis found. That rate was well below the 2 percent level that the city had exceeded for five straight years peaking at nearly 2.8 percent in 2015 when the city added 18,347 people, according to revised census figures.

Denver added fewer than 10,000 people for the first time since the 2010 annual census estimates, even as its numerical increase ranked third among counties in the state in the new release. Denver County remains the largest in the state, but even as its growth decelerates, the longer the view in Denver is impressive: Since 2010, Denver's population has grown by 101,403. 

Back in 1990, the city's population stood at 467,854. Over the next 27 years the city's population grew by more than 236,000 as housing developers built out Lowry, Stapleton, and Green Valley Ranch, while older neighborhoods added significant density. 

The strain of Denver's boom has been reflected in soaring housing costs, complaints about intensifying traffic, protests against gentrification and backlashes against development. Those pressures are likely to worsen as more people move to Denver, even if in smaller numbers. 

In the suburbs, the City and County of BRoomfield notched the fastest growth of any metro county, at 2.8 percent, putting its latest population at 68,341. Douglas County grew by 2.3 percent, to 335,299. The slowest metro growth rate was Boulder Count's 0.42 percent.

-Jon Murray The Denver Post