![]() "It looks more selfish, but it's not selfish," Pelton said, talking about how his parents married and started a family young and how he doesn't feel pressure to do the same. He wanted to follow his career to Texas, and she wanted to stay in Fort Collins, so the two have mutually decided to call off their wedding and go their separate ways when Pelton makes the move in two weeks. He had been engaged to his fiance for over a year when he got the opportunity to be a part-owner in his friend's Denton, Texas coffee shop. He tracks his finances through an app, can be found in cafes with his laptop in tow and glances at his iPhone's calendar before scheduling any new appointments. In town, he can be found at Little Bird Bakery, where he continues to hone his barista skills. Pelton, who's a Texas native but has lived in Fort Collins for a little over two years, works as an independent coffee consultant for shops and restaurants across the country. ![]() If that's the case, millennials will have the lowest marriage rates in modern history. In a Pew Research study released last year, half of 25- to 34-year-olds in America had never been married and, by 2030, Pew predicted nearly three in 10 men in that age group would still be unmarried. They're largely parented in a way that's led to a sense of entitlement or sometimes enablement," Dorsey said. This is a group who's always come of age with technology in their hands. where it's socially acceptable to not get married or have a kid after the age of 30. "In millennials, we're seeing this cognitive delayed adulthood," said Dorsey, who, at 36, identifies himself as part of the millennial generation. But what, besides age, sets them apart from the generation they're set to surpass? So anyone from 16 to 38 years old can be a millennial, depending on your definition. Jason Dorsey, a millennial researcher who runs The Center for Generational Kinetics in Austin, considers a millennial someone born between 19. The Pew Research Center, which just released a study on millennials overtaking boomers, considers the birth year range from 1981 to 1997. The Colorado State Demographer's Office considers a millennial someone who was born between 19. So what makes up a millennial? Who is a part of this mammoth generation on the rise? This increased millennial population, according to the State Demography Office, could be because of the draw Colorado has to young people - who are, at the moment, millennials.Īccording to a Fort Collins community survey, the city's median age is 29.1, which falls perfectly in the middle of the millennial age range. Generation X, in most cases, is left trailing behind both groups. Soon there will be an almost 10,000-person difference between the two generations in the county, according to those same projections for this year. There should be around 76,714 baby boomers in Larimer County in 2015. In Larimer County, population data shows millennials surpassed boomers in 2007 and now account for a projected 87,419 of Larimer's 315,000 population. ![]() Twenty years ago, there were 830,640 millennials and 1.17 million baby boomers in Colorado. He did the math and realized that, at 23, his father had been married for two years and had already had two children.įive years later, Pelton is 28, still unmarried, childless and a prime example of the millennial generation - the group of young people born between the late 1970s and early 1990s who are set to surpass baby boomers in population across Colorado and the U.S. Getting squared away before the vacation, he ended up taking his birth certificate in to get a passport and - in the process - glanced at his dad's birthday. Once upon a time, Ronnie Pelton was 23 and without a passport before a trip to Mexico. baby boomers: Larimer numbers ahead of state, national trends ![]()
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