Population development in Krefeld
This article shows the development of the population of Krefeld in a table and graph.
On December 31, 2011, the " official population " for Krefeld was 234,396 people (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices ) according to the information and technology department of North Rhine-Westphalia .
According to the "2011 Census", however, the number of inhabitants in Krefeld in 2011 was only 221,864 (= minus 5.3%).
Population development
In the Middle Ages and the early modern period in Krefeld only a few hundred people lived. The population grew very slowly and kept falling due to the numerous wars, epidemics and famine. Only with the beginning of industrialization in the 19th century did population growth accelerate. While Krefeld only had 8,363 inhabitants in 1804, the city's population exceeded the limit of 100,000 in 1888, making it a major city .
In the census of December 5, 1917, a total local population of 120,225 people was determined. According to the economics department of the War Food Office, these included 7,502 military personnel and 1,514 prisoners of war. On August 1, 1929, it merged with the city of Uerdingen (11,867 inhabitants 1925). In the census of May 17, 1939, 170,968 people were identified. Until April 24, 1940 the city was called Krefeld-Uerdingen am Rhein .
During the Second World War , large parts of the east of the city were hit in a British air raid on June 21, 1943, the inner city was significantly destroyed by a firestorm caused by incendiary bombs . At the end of the war, 73.7 percent of all apartments were destroyed or damaged, 33.9 percent were classified as total losses. When the American army took Krefeld on March 3, 1945, 116,500 people were still living in the city. This corresponds to a decrease of 31.9 percent since May 1939.
Because of the return of the forced evacuees and the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the German eastern areas , the population rose rapidly. In the whole of 1945, 22,092 people, including 4,236 refugees, moved to Krefeld. In 1946 there were 11,815 newcomers, including 2,630 refugees. In 1951, as many people lived in the city as before the war. In 1994 the population reached its historic high of 249,662. In 2008 the city with 236,333 inhabitants ranked 31st among the major German cities and 14th within North Rhine-Westphalia.
The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. Up to 1812 these are mostly estimates, then census results (¹) or official updates by the city administration (until 1970) and the State Statistical Office (from 1971). From 1834 the information relates to the “customs clearance population”, from 1871 to the “local population”, from 1925 to the resident population and since 1987 to the “population at the place of the main residence”. Before 1834, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey methods.
From 1604 to 1870
(respective territorial status)
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¹ census result
From 1871 to 1944
(respective territorial status)
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¹ census result
Source: City of Krefeld
From 1945 to 1989
(respective territorial status)
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¹ census result
Sources: City of Krefeld (until 1970), State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia (from 1971)
Since 1990
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Source: State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia
Population forecast
In their "Guide to Commune" published in 2008, in which the Bertelsmann Foundation provides data on the development of the population of around 3,000 municipalities in Germany, a 4.1 percent decline in Krefeld's population (9,723 people) is predicted between 2006 and 2025.
According to the "2011 Census", the 2011 population of 221,864 is already significantly lower than the 227,381 population forecast for 2025.
Absolute population development 2012–2030 - forecast for Krefeld (main residences):
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Source: Bertelsmann Foundation
Population structure
The largest groups of foreigners legally registered in Krefeld on December 31, 2006 came from Turkey (9,441), Italy (1,980), Poland (1,654), Greece (1,642), Serbia (994), the Netherlands (936), Portugal (672 ), Ukraine (640), Russia (554), Austria (392), Sri Lanka (387), Great Britain (384), Croatia (355), Spain (334), Macedonia (301), Iraq (279), Kazakhstan ( 247), China (244), Morocco (224), France (205), Vietnam (189), Bosnia and Herzegovina (180), Thailand (162), Iran (156), Romania (131), USA (122) and Hungary (116). The official statistics do not include naturalized persons and German-born children of foreign origin as foreigners.
| population | As of December 31, 2006 |
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| Residents with main residence | 237.104 |
| of which male | 114,816 |
| Female | 122,288 |
| German | 206,537 |
| of which male | 99.154 |
| Female | 107,383 |
| Foreigners | 30,567 |
| of which male | 15,662 |
| Female | 14,905 |
| Proportion of foreigners in percent | 12.9 |
Source: State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia
age structure
The following overview shows the age structure as of December 31, 2006 (main residences).
| Age from - to | population | Percentage |
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| 0 - 5 | 11,963 | 5.0 |
| 6-17 | 28,968 | 12.2 |
| 18 - 24 | 18,211 | 7.7 |
| 25-29 | 12,304 | 5.2 |
| 30-39 | 31,682 | 13.4 |
| 40-49 | 40,732 | 17.2 |
| 50 - 59 | 30,927 | 13.0 |
| 60-64 | 13,121 | 5.5 |
| over 65 | 49.196 | 20.7 |
| total | 237.104 | 100.0 |
Source: State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia
Districts
The population figures refer to December 31, 2007 (main and secondary residences).
| No. |
Surname |
Area in km² |
of inhabitants number |
Inhabitants per km² |
Number of foreigners |
Foreigners in% |
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| 010 | City center | 2.42 | 32,718 | 13,520 | 8,815 | 26.9 |
| 020 | Kempener Feld / Baackeshof | 4.62 | 9,964 | 2.157 | 1,111 | 11.2 |
| 030 | Inrath / Kliedbruch | 6.77 | 17.114 | 2,528 | 1,508 | 8.8 |
| 040 | Cracau | 2.52 | 22,029 | 8,742 | 4,600 | 20.9 |
| 050 | Dießem / Lehmheide | 4.36 | 17,623 | 4,042 | 4,793 | 27.2 |
| 060 | Benrad - South | 4.52 | 7,413 | 1,640 | 769 | 10.4 |
| 070 | Forest forest | 4.12 | 3,578 | 868 | 176 | 4.9 |
| 080 | Benrad North | 3.27 | 7,081 | 2.165 | 912 | 12.9 |
| 090 | Hülser Berg | 7.84 | 557 | 71 | 29 | 5.2 |
| 100 | Traar | 9.06 | 4,668 | 515 | 196 | 4.2 |
| 110 | Concealment | 3.31 | 4,006 | 1,210 | 172 | 4.3 |
| 120 | Garden city | 2.76 | 7,437 | 2,695 | 449 | 6.0 |
| 130 | Bockum | 8.30 | 21,933 | 2,643 | 1,851 | 8.4 |
| 140 | Linn | 7.58 | 6,905 | 911 | 1,430 | 20.7 |
| 150 | Gellep stratum | 8.89 | 2,863 | 322 | 164 | 5.7 |
| 160 | Oppum | 5.37 | 13,047 | 2,430 | 1,563 | 12.0 |
| 170 | Fishing | 18.97 | 26,713 | 1,408 | 2,638 | 9.9 |
| 180 | Uerdingen | 14.82 | 18,729 | 1,264 | 1,843 | 9.8 |
| 190 | Sleeve | 18.24 | 16,170 | 887 | 737 | 4.6 |
| 000 | Krefeld | 137.76 | 240,548 | 1,746 | 33,756 | 14.0 |
Source: City of Krefeld
See also
literature
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici (ed.): Communications from the Statistical Bureau in Berlin , 1848–1861
- Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): Statistical Yearbook for the German Empire , 1880–1918
- Statistisches Reichsamt (Ed.): Statistical yearbook for the German Reich , 1919–1941 / 42
- German Association of Cities (Ed.): Statistical Yearbook of German Communities , 1890 ff.
- Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany , 1952 ff.
- Herbert Kisch: The house-industrial textile trade on the Lower Rhine before the industrial revolution: From the original to the capitalist accumulation , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 3-525-35382-0
- Bertelsmann Stiftung (Ed.): Guide to Demographic Change 2020. Analyzes and action plans for cities and municipalities. Bertelsmann Stiftung Publishing House, Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 3-89204-875-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ IT.NRW: Population in the Düsseldorf administrative region ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Bertelsmann Foundation: Population forecast
- ↑ IT.NRW: Foreign population in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 286 kB)
- ↑ IT.NRW: Foreign population in North Rhine-Westphalia according to selected nationalities ( memento of the original of July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 50 kB)
- ↑ City of Krefeld: Current population figures ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
