Why Wyoming is VASTLY Emptier Than Colorado

Summary by Krater

This video compares Colorado and Wyoming, examining their geographical similarities, population trends, historical gold rushes, federal land ownership, and economic developments, and concludes that Colorado's diversified economy and strategic central location have fueled its massive population growth while Wyoming remains sparsely populated and reliant on boom-and-bust resource industries.

From the video

Answers: Why do Colorado and Wyoming have such vastly different populations despite similar geography?

• Colorado geography and demographics
• Wyoming geography and demographics
• History of American settlement
• Federal land ownership in Western states
• Aerospace industry in Colorado
• Denver International Airport economics

What it concludes

• Wyoming's average population density of just 2.3 people per square kilometer ranks it as one of the most completely empty locations anywhere on the planet.
• Cheyenne and most of Wyoming's other towns function more as satellites of Colorado from a transportation and economic perspective.
• Colorado alone accounts for nearly 40 percent of the entire population of America's six Rocky Mountain states.
• Colorado is the most isolated of all of America's top 30 largest cities.
• Colorado was the first state of the two to attract American settlers due to the 1858 gold discovery along the South Platte River.
• Wyoming is legally entitled to even more freshwater resources than Colorado is because its rivers do not flow to arid downstream communities requiring federal allocation cuts.