Population development of Bochum
This article shows the population development of Bochum in tabular and graphic form.
On December 31, 2012, the " official population " for Bochum was 362,213 (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices ) according to updates by the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia (LDS NRW ).
Population development
The population of Bochum was a few hundred in the Middle Ages and early modern times . It grew only slowly and went back again and again through the numerous wars, epidemics and famine. In 1517 and 1544, numerous residents died from the plague epidemics , and fire disasters destroyed the city in 1517 and 1581. It was not until industrialization in the 19th century that the city's population grew very quickly. In 1800 only 1,636 people lived in the city, in 1900 there were already 65,000.
With the incorporation of Hamme , Hofstede, Grumme and Wiemelhausen on April 1, 1904, the population of the city of Bochum exceeded the limit of 100,000, making it a major city . On April 1, 1926, the population rose by 53,844 people to 213,340 through the incorporation of several places. The incorporation of numerous communities on August 1, 1929 brought an increase from 106,096 people to 322,514 inhabitants. In the census of May 17, 1939, 305,485 people were identified.
The effects of the Second World War are clearly visible . The Allied air raids killed 4,095 civilians and large parts of the city were destroyed. In the heaviest attack on November 4, 1944 alone, 130,000 incendiary bombs fell on the city, 1,300 people died, 2,000 were wounded and 70,000 were homeless. Overall, Bochum lost around half of its residents through evacuation, escape, deportations and air raids. In 1952 the city had as many inhabitants as before the war.
On January 1, 1975 the population reached its historical high of 417,336 due to the incorporation of the city of Wattenscheid (81,469 inhabitants 1974) - calculated according to the respective territorial level. At the end of 2010, the city with 374,737 inhabitants ranked 16th among German cities and sixth in North Rhine-Westphalia. According to a forecast by the LDS NRW, the number of inhabitants will decrease to 359,300 by 2025.
In 1963, according to the current territorial status, Bochum reached a peak with 447,692 people (80,140 of them in Wattenscheid). By 2010 the population decreased by 16.3 percent (72,955 people). The population density in today's urban area fell from 3,079 inhabitants per square kilometer to 2,587 inhabitants per square kilometer in the same period. The proportion of foreigners rose between 1963 and 2010 from 1.8 percent to 11.3 percent.
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 1969) and the State Statistical Office (from 1970). 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 1500 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 Bochum
From 1945 to 1989
(respective territorial status)
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¹ census result
Sources: City of Bochum (until 1969), State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia (from 1970)
Since 1990
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Source: State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia
Population forecast
In their 2009 publication “Who, where, how many? - Population in Germany 2025 ”, in which the Bertelsmann Foundation provides data on the development of the population for all municipalities with more than 5,000 inhabitants in Germany, a 10.2 percent decline in Bochum's population (38,470 people) is predicted between 2009 and 2030. Lt. State Office for Statistics, Bochum's population was 362,213 as of 2012. This means it is already 3,417 inhabitants lower than Bertelsmann's forecast for 2015 of 365,630.
Absolute population development 2009-2030 - forecast for Bochum (main residences):
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Source: Bertelsmann Foundation
In March 2016, Deutsche Postbank AG published a study conducted by Michael Bräuninger, professor at Helmut Schmidt University , entitled Housing Atlas 2016 - Living in the City , in which a population forecast for 36 major German cities for the year 2030 is carried out. It also explicitly takes into account the immigration in the context of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 . For Bochum, it predicts a population decline of 4.65% from 2015 to 2030 despite the influx of refugees.
Population structure
The largest groups of foreigners legally registered in Bochum on December 31, 2015 came from Turkey (9,059), Poland (3,640), Syria (3,620), Italy (1,847), Romania (1,574), Greece (1,274), Iraq (1,038 ), Russia (971), China (934) and Serbia (864).
| population | As of December 31, 2015 |
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| Residents with main residence | 369.314 |
| of which male | 181,248 |
| Female | 188.066 |
| German | 325,542 |
| of which male | 157.724 |
| Female | 167.818 |
| Foreigners | 43,772 |
| of which male | 23,524 |
| Female | 20,248 |
| Proportion of foreigners in percent | 11.9 |
Source: City of Bochum
age structure
The following overview shows the age structure as of December 31, 2010 (main residences).
| Age in years | population | Percentage |
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| 0-4 | 13,575 | 3.6 |
| 5-14 | 30,047 | 8.0 |
| 15-19 | 17,544 | 4.7 |
| 20-24 | 24,623 | 6.6 |
| 25-29 | 25,263 | 6.8 |
| 30-39 | 44,375 | 11.8 |
| 40-49 | 62.993 | 16.8 |
| 50-59 | 54,851 | 14.6 |
| 60-64 | 21,684 | 5.8 |
| 65 and older | 79,602 | 21.3 |
| total | 374.737 | 100.0 |
Source: State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia
City structure
The urban area of Bochum consists of six city districts. They are divided into a total of 30 statistical districts.
Townships
The population figures in the following table refer to December 31, 2006 (main residences).
| No. | Surname | Area in km² |
of inhabitants number |
Inhabitants per km² |
Number of foreigners |
Foreigners in% |
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| 1 | center | 32.60 | 102.004 | 3.129 | 11,821 | 11.6 |
| 2 | Wattenscheid | 23.87 | 74,326 | 3.114 | 5,447 | 7.3 |
| 3 | North | 18.86 | 36,856 | 1,954 | 2.234 | 6.1 |
| 4th | east | 23.46 | 54.903 | 2,340 | 4,530 | 8.3 |
| 5 | south | 27.11 | 51,081 | 1,884 | 6.115 | 12.0 |
| 6th | southwest | 19.50 | 56,393 | 2,892 | 2,999 | 5.3 |
| Bochum | 145.40 | 375,563 | 2,583 | 33,146 | 8.8 |
Source: City of Bochum
Statistical districts
The population figures in the following table refer to December 31, 2006 (main residences).
| No. | Surname | Area in km² |
of inhabitants number |
Inhabitants per km² |
Number of foreigners |
Foreigners in% |
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| 10 | Grumbles | 5.74 | 13,193 | 2,298 | 815 | 6.2 |
| 11 | Track triangle | 1.28 | 8,447 | 6,599 | 1,644 | 19.5 |
| 13 | Altenbochum | 3.07 | 12,280 | 4,000 | 634 | 5.2 |
| 14th | South downtown | 2.66 | 16,491 | 6,200 | 1,382 | 8.4 |
| 15th | Kruppwerke | 6.62 | 15,022 | 2,269 | 3,060 | 20.4 |
| 16 | Hamme | 3.97 | 15,284 | 3,850 | 2,355 | 15.4 |
| 17th | Hordel | 2.33 | 3,335 | 1,431 | 220 | 6.6 |
| 18th | Hofstede | 3.17 | 10,317 | 3,255 | 1,074 | 10.4 |
| 19th | Riemke | 3.76 | 7,635 | 2,031 | 637 | 8.3 |
| 24 | Günnigfeld | 1.63 | 5,779 | 3,545 | 460 | 8.0 |
| 25th | Wattenscheid center | 4.47 | 22,153 | 4,956 | 2,539 | 11.5 |
| 26th | Leithe | 2.78 | 7,639 | 2,748 | 679 | 8.9 |
| 27 | Westenfeld | 3.76 | 10,886 | 2,895 | 708 | 6.5 |
| 28 | Höntrop | 8.04 | 17,991 | 2,238 | 798 | 4.4 |
| 29 | Eppendorf | 3.19 | 9,878 | 3,097 | 263 | 2.7 |
| 36 | Bergen / Hiltrop | 4.89 | 10,738 | 2,196 | 668 | 6.2 |
| 37 | Gerthe | 5.90 | 9,292 | 1,575 | 618 | 6.7 |
| 38 | Harpen / Rosenberg | 3.92 | 9,013 | 2,299 | 429 | 4.8 |
| 39 | Kornharpen / Voede branch | 4.15 | 7,813 | 1,883 | 519 | 6.6 |
| 46 | Laer | 4.45 | 6,294 | 1,414 | 612 | 9.7 |
| 47 | Werne | 4.86 | 15,400 | 3,169 | 1,386 | 9.0 |
| 48 | Langendreer | 11.54 | 26,317 | 2,281 | 1,745 | 6.6 |
| 49 | Langendreer old station | 2.61 | 6,892 | 2,641 | 787 | 11.4 |
| 53 | Wiemelhausen / Brenschede | 5.45 | 18,700 | 3,431 | 1,048 | 5.6 |
| 54 | Stiepel | 12.46 | 11,437 | 918 | 259 | 2.3 |
| 55 | Querenburg | 9.20 | 20,944 | 2,277 | 4,808 | 23.0 |
| 63 | Weitmar center | 4.67 | 15,557 | 3,331 | 1,096 | 7.0 |
| 64 | Weitmar mark | 5.26 | 12,747 | 2,423 | 358 | 2.8 |
| 65 | Linden trees | 4.61 | 14,718 | 3,193 | 660 | 4.5 |
| 66 | Dahlhausen | 4.96 | 13,371 | 2,696 | 885 | 6.6 |
| Bochum | 145.40 | 375,563 | 2,583 | 33,146 | 8.8 |
Source: City of Bochum
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.
- 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: Official population figures ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 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.
- ^ Bertelsmann Foundation: Population forecast
- ↑ Press release Deutsche Post AG: Postbank study "Housing Atlas 2016 - Living in the City": Where population growth causes prices to rise , published on March 3, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2016
- ^ City of Bochum: Foreigners and stateless persons 2011 to 2015 in Bochum , accessed on October 30, 2016
- ↑ a b City of Bochum: Population figures
