North Central Colorado Urban Area

The North Central Colorado Urban Area comprises the four contiguous metropolitan statistical areas in the north central region of the State of Colorado: the Denver–Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area, the Boulder Metropolitan Statistical Area, the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the Greeley Metropolitan Statistical Area. With the exception of southeastern Elbert County, southeastern Park County, and tiny portions of southern Douglas County, the entire North Central Colorado Urban Area is drained by the South Platte River and its tributaries. The North Central Colorado Urban Area is the central, and the most populous, of the three primary subregions of the Front Range Urban Corridor.

North Central Colorado Urban Area
Skyline of Downtown Denver
Interactive map of the North Central Colorado Urban Area   City and County of Denver   Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO MSA   Boulder, CO MSA   Greeley, CO MSA   Fort Collins, CO MSA   Other Counties in the Front Range corridor
Country	United States
States	Colorado
Largest city	- Denver
Other principal cities	- Aurora  - Lakewood  - Thornton  - Arvada  - Westminster  - Centennial  - Highlands Ranch  - Castle Rock  - Broomfield  - Commerce City  - Boulder  - Greeley  - Longmont  - Fort Collins  - Loveland
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)

The North Central Colorado Urban Area had a population of 3,390,504 at the 2010 United States Census, a 17.67% increase from the 2000 United States Census.^[1] In 2010, 67.42% of Coloradans lived in the North Central Colorado Urban Area.