The South Central Colorado Urban Area comprises the Colorado Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area, the Pueblo Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the Cañon City Micropolitan Statistical Area in the central and south central region of the State of Colorado. With the exception of northern Teller County and small portions of northern El Paso County, the entire South Central Colorado Urban Area is drained by the Arkansas River and its tributaries. The South Central Colorado Urban Area is the southernmost of the three primary subregions of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
The South Central Colorado Urban Area had a population of 851,500 at the 2010 United States Census, and increase of 17.43% from the 2000 United States Census. In 2010, 16.93% of Coloradans lived in the South Central Colorado Urban Area.
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Municipalities
Constituent jurisdictions
The South Central Colorado Urban Area includes
Places over 100,000 inhabitants
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Places with 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants
Cañon City
Fountain
Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants
Cripple Creek
Florence
Manitou Springs
Monument
Palmer Lake
Woodland Park
Places with less than 1,000 inhabitants
Brookside
Boone
Calhan
Coal Creek
Green Mountain Falls
Ramah
Rockvale
Rye
Williamsburg
Victor
and-
unincorporated El Paso County
unincorporated Fremont County
unincorporated Pueblo County
unincorporated Teller County, Colorado.