New U.S. Census Bureau numbers that should surprise no one-but that also have all sorts of political implications-once again rank Colorado among the top states for population growth.

The Census Bureau’s national and state population estimates released today show Colorado was the seventh-fastest-growing state for the year ending last July 1, having increased its head count 1.68 percent. That placed the state just ahead of Arizona for that time period and just behind Oregon. No. 1, by the way, was our next-door neighbor Utah, which posted a 2.03 percent growth rate.

When ranked by growth in sheer numbers, Colorado was No. 8, having added 91,726 souls from elsewhere. By that measure, Colorado came in just ahead of Oregon and just behind Georgia. No. 1 on that list was Texas, which added 432,957 people.

A Census Bureau news release accompanying the new data also offered some insights about the national landscape:

…the U.S. population grew by 0.7 percent to 323.1 million. Furthermore, the population of voting-age residents, adults age 18 and over, grew to 249.5 million, making up 77.2 percent of the population in 2016, an increase of 0.9 percent from 2015 (247.3 million).

The rapid growth in Colorado and other states of the West and Sunbelt is largely part of a long-standing trend, to be sure.

For example, in the 63 months leading up to the 12 month-period of the latest Census data, Colorado grew by 427,378 people, an 8.5 percent growth rate that ranked it third among the states for that period.

As is also well established, plenty of those new Coloradans probably came by plane or automobile rather than stork. Denverite not long ago published an interactive map illustrating what percentage of Colorado’s population was born in the state as of 2015 Census data-just 42.7 percent-and what percentage of our state population, in turn, hailed from each of the other 49 states and from abroad. No real surprises there, either, including the fact that the biggest portion of newcomers came from other countries (11 percent) with California being the second-biggest source, comprising 6 percent. Texas was next, supplying 3.3 percent of non-native Coloradans.

And, of course, they all came here for the legal marijuana. Just kidding. Craft beer played a role, too. Kidding again. Sort of.