With Thanksgiving arriving next week, many around the country have already turned their collective eye towards the crown jewel of holidays, with Christmas Day hovering just over a month away on the calendar and countless residents of the Centennial State eyeing that perfect tree for the end-of-year celebration.
In Colorado, the state’s healthy bounty of coniferous trees means that Rocky Mountain State locals have a choice as to whether they go with the real thing or a fake tree come Dec. 25, which begs the question as to whether Coloradans are choosing plastic over wood this Xmas season.
Holiday season is in full swing. At BetColorado.com, we took a break from Colorado sports betting coverage to see if locals in the Centennial State prefer real or artificial Christmas trees. Using Google Trends, we compared the search interest scores for “real Christmas trees” and “artificial Christmas trees.” The search period was 11/30/2023-12/25/2023 and filtered to only include Colorado.
Colorado Christmas Tree Preferences
Type | Score |
Real Tree | 9 |
Artificial Tree | 3 |
Colorado Metro Preferences
Metro | Type | Percentage of Preference |
Denver | Real Tree | 53% |
Colorado Springs-Pueblo | Artificial Tree | 58% |
Based on the digital tea leaves known as search interest scores, we can assess that Colorado residents prefer real trees over fake ones, with the former scoring nine search interest points while the latter had a total of three, speaking to the allure of wood over plastic when you have lots of natural trees to choose from.
The breakdown on the “Real vs. Fake Tree” debate was even more pronounced when broken down by metropolitan area in Colorado, with Denver residents going with real trees over fake ones with natural wood scoring 53% of answers, compared with 47% for fake Christmas trees.
Down I-25 in Colorado Springs the opposite was true, with residents of the Southern Front Range city going with fake trees over real ones, with fake trees scoring 58% of responses against 42% for natural trees, speaking to the lack of consensus about which type of tree is best in the state.
For now, what we do know is that there’s just over a month for Colorado residents to pick whichever type of tree they prefer so they can have it safely up and decorated before the tidings of Christmas Day arrive on the morning of Dec. 25 in the winter wonderland that is the Centennial State.
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Christopher Boan has been covering sports and sports betting for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
