Greenwood Village, Colorado

History

The city is named for the Greenwood Ranch. The area was developed during the 1860s when settlers came from the East and Midwest looking for gold. By the early 1900s, it had become a farming community but did not incorporate until 1950. Starting in the 1970s, Greenwood Village grew rapidly with the development of the Denver Technological Center. Mayor Freda Poundstone resisted efforts by neighboring Denver to annex more land for the Tech Center, which resulted in the 1974 Poundstone Amendment. This effectively froze Denver's boundaries in place and allowed Greenwood Village to annex prime properties along the I-25 corridor. This in turn raised objections from residents of unincorporated Arapahoe County, who were losing their tax base as a result, and led to the incorporation of Centennial in 2001. Now as of 2010 Greenwood Village is itself hemmed in by Centennial's boundaries, and has had three rare cases of deannexation – in 1985, 2011, and 2024.

Geography

At the 2020 United States census, the town had a total area of 21.444 km2 including 0.032 km2 of water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 11,035 people, 3,997 households, and 3,097 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,361.0 PD/sqmi. There were 4,206 housing units at an average density of 518.7 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the city was 93.90% White, 1.14% African American, 0.19% Native American, 2.55% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.61% from other races, and 1.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.12% of the population.

There were 3,997 households, out of which 41.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.8% were married couples living together, 5.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.5% were non-families. 17.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.15. Greenwood Village resides within the Cherry Creek School District. West Middle School and Campus Middle School feed Cherry Creek High School.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 29.7% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 23.9% from 25 to 44, 32.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $116,147, and the median income for a family was $145,802. Males had a median income of $99,088 versus $41,991 for females. The per capita income for the city was $69,189. About 1.5% of families and 1.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.1% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over. To compare, the average US income for 2000 was $48,476.

Educational background for population 25 years and over in Greenwood Village:

• High school or higher: 98.5%
• Bachelor's degree or higher: 72.3%
• Graduate or professional degree: 31.2%
• Unemployed: 2.6%
• Mean travel time to work: 21.0 minutes

For population 15 years and over in Greenwood Village city

• Never married: 21.4%
• Now married: 66.5%
• Separated: 0.9%
• Widowed: 2.6%
• Divorced: 8.5%

8.3% Foreign born (2.8% Europe, 2.5% Latin America, 1.6% Asia, 1.1% North America).

Economy

Greenwood Village includes part of the Denver Technological Center (DTC). Companies currently based in Greenwood Village include:

• Air Methods, in the DTC, moved there in 2017
• American Medical Response
• Charter Communications
• CoBank
• CSG International
• Empower Retirement
• Excelacom
• Great-West
• Jacobs Solutions
• Newmont
• Red Robin
• RMR Colorado, LLC (Black-eyed Pea Colorado restaurants)
• Weather Nation TV
• Xanterra Parks and Resorts

Companies that were based in Greenwood Village, CO:

• Adelphia
• GapWest Broadcasting
• JD Edwards
• Molycorp
• Tele-Communications Inc
• Weather Nation TV
• First Data's headquarters were located in Greenwood Village. In 2009, First Data announced that it was moving its headquarters from Greater Denver to Greater Atlanta.

Top employers

According to the city's 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city were:

Radio and television

Greenwood Village is in the Denver television market.

Greenwood Village is a center of broadcast media in the Denver metropolitan area. The following is a list of media outlets based in the city. Greenwood Village is in the Denver-Boulder radio market. Local listeners can also receive the signal of radio stations broadcasting from nearby communities including Aurora, Centennial, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, and Loveland.

The following is a list of radio stations that broadcast from and/or are licensed to Greenwood Village.

AM

FM

Education

Cherry Creek School District, which covers most of the municipality, is based in Greenwood Village.

The historic Cherry Creek Schoolhouse, built in 1874 and preserved on the high school campus, is the oldest surviving school in Greenwood Village.

A portion is in the Littleton School District 6.

Higher education:

• Metropolitan State University of Denver has a satellite campus.
• Regis University has a satellite campus.

Entertainment

Greenwood Village is the site of the Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, an 18,000-seat outdoor venue.

Notable people

Notable individuals who were born in or have lived in Greenwood Village include:

• Clare Gallagher (born 1992), ultra-distance runner
• Phillip S. Figa (1951–2008), U.S. federal judge
• Mike Law (born 1979), lacrosse forward
• Sam Raben (born 1997), soccer player
• Brian Watson (born 1971), entrepreneur, author, and politician
• Griffin Jax (born 1994), baseball player for the Minnesota Twins and Tampa Bay Rays

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