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Talent

The Denver region offers a unique hub, filled with talented network engineers, network security engineers, and software engineers.

Steve Politis, Denver Office Lead, Facebook

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As the economic hub of the region, connected by freeways and transit alike, Downtown Denver provides the optimal location to reach the 1.83 million metro Denver talent pool, which grew by 54,217 people last year. Since 2010, the region has added over 230,000 people to the workforce, over 100,000 of which were in the past two years alone.

The talent pool is growing in terms of education as well, with nearly 45% of metro Denver’s population having a bachelor’s degree or higher, a figure that is up by one percentage point in the last year. Denver is attracting talent, and growing our own, with several nearby colleges and universities. Denver is also now ranked as a top 10 tech talent market according to CBRE.

University of Colorado BoulderBoulder, Colorado

33,864

Colorado State UniversityFort Collins, Colorado

29,211

Metropolitan State UniversityDenver, Colorado

19,667

University of Colorado DenverDenver, Colorado

19,448

University of Colorado Colorado SpringsColorado Springs, Colorado

12,433

University of DenverDenver, Colorado

11,434

University of Northern ColoradoGreeley, Colorado

10,095

Regis UniversityDenver, Colorado

8,341

Colorado Christian UniversityLakewood, Colorado

7,398

Colorado School of MinesGolden, Colorado

6,115

Colorado CollegeColorado Springs, Colorado

2,026

Number of Students Enrolled

54K people added to the metro region’s talent pool

A Growing Labor Force

University Enrollment of Four-Year Colleges in the Metro Region

1,850,000

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As we did some sourcing and recruiting of the different talent pools across the country, we found that Colorado is the place to be, and we wanted to be in Downtown Denver.

Rick Chen, Communications Director, Gusto

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Number of People with Multimodal Access to Downtown Denver

40,000within 15 min walk

170,000within 15 min bike ride

1,500,000within 30 min transit ride

2,700,000within 30 min drive

Source: Denver Regional Council of Governments,

Household Population and Employment Forecasts (2017)