Population development of Dortmund

This article shows the population development of Dortmund in tabular and graphical form.

On December 31, 2018, the " official population " of Dortmund was 587,010 (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices ) according to the information and technology of North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW ).

Population development

 

Population development in Dortmund according to the table below. Above from 1300 to 2018. Below an excerpt from 1871

Around 1300, during the time of the Hanseatic League , Dortmund and the neighboring cities of Cologne and Soest were considered to be one of the largest cities in what is now the Federal Republic of Germany. Sometimes a population of up to 15,000 is mentioned. But this number is not historically certain. Historians assume a population between 6,000 and 10,000. In the course of the Middle Ages , the population fell to around 4,000 as a result of wars and feuds as well as plague epidemics . In 1793 Dortmund had 4,500 inhabitants.

From the middle of the 19th century, the rise of Dortmund and the change to an industrial city began with coal mining and steel processing. Since the opening of the Cöln-Minden Railway in 1847, Dortmund has become an important transport hub in the Ruhr area. Another significant contribution to economic development was made in 1899 when the Dortmund-Ems Canal and with it the port were opened.

Dortmund was a city of immigration as early as the Middle Ages, with the beginning of industrialization , the influx increased enormously. Among these immigrants were also many Poles and thus, for the first time, a large group of non-German-speaking people with a different religion, who ultimately assimilated. The need for labor led to enormous population growth. In 1849 the city only had 10,532 inhabitants, in 1890 there were already 90,000.

In 1904, the population of the city of Dortmund exceeded the limit of 100,000, making it a major city . After the incorporation of the city ​​of Hörde (1925 = 34,575 inhabitants) and the districts of Dortmund and Hörde, around 538,000 people lived in the city in 1929. The census of May 17, 1939 identified 542,261 people.

The Second World War depopulated the destroyed Dortmund. Between May 5, 1943 and March 12, 1945, the British Royal Air Force carried out a total of 105 air raids on the city. Eight major attacks destroyed 70 percent of the existing living space. According to official statistics, 6,341 people died in the nights of the bombing. In April 1945 only 341,000 people lived in the city, a decrease of 37.1 percent compared to May 1939.

After the war, many people evacuated to the rural area, as well as refugees and displaced persons from the eastern German regions, settled in Dortmund. The population grew rapidly. In 1965 an all-time high was reached with 657,804 citizens. City planners dreamed of a metropolis of millions, but things turned out differently. By 2000, the population had dropped to 588,994. In 2006, the city with 587,624 inhabitants was seventh among the major German cities and second within North Rhine-Westphalia, until after decades of publication of the official population figures on June 30, 2009, it had to leave these rankings to the city of Düsseldorf again, which in the In contrast to the big cities in the Ruhr area, there was a steady increase in population.

According to its own statement, the city once again exceeded the 600,000 mark in terms of population in 2016. According to Dortmund statistics, 602,566 people lived in Dortmund at the end of 2018.

Since the 2011 IT.NRW census, the population has grown by 2.7%. Up to 2016 the number has grown steadily. Between 2017 and 2018 the population grew by 0.1% to 587,010; In 2017 there were 586,600 inhabitants. So the city is bigger than it was in 2007.

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 1300 to 1870

(respective territorial status)

Year / date Residents 1300 10,000 1380 8,000 1480 7,500 1600 4,000 1700 3,000 1793 4,500 1809 4,394 1812 4,828 December 1, 1816¹ 4,465 December 1, 1819¹ 4,453 December 1, 1822¹ 4,534 December 1, 1825¹ 5,962 December 1, 1828¹ 6.167

date Residents December 1, 1831¹ 6.121 December 3, 1834¹ 6,360 December 3, 1837¹ 6,861 December 3, 1840¹ 7.205 December 3, 1843¹ 7,620 December 3, 1846¹ 8,893 December 3, 1849¹ 10,532 December 3, 1852¹ 13,546 December 3, 1855¹ 16,664 December 3, 1858¹ 22,115 December 3, 1861¹ 23,372 December 3, 1864¹ 27,356 December 3, 1867¹ 33,453

¹ census result

From 1871 to 1944

(respective territorial status)

date Residents December 1, 1871¹ 44,420 December 1, 1875¹ 57,742 December 1, 1880¹ 66,544 December 1, 1885¹ 78,435 December 1, 1890¹ 89,663 December 31, 1891 92,740 December 31, 1892 96.020 December 31, 1893 99,450 December 31, 1894 104,340 December 2, 1895¹ 111,232 December 31, 1896 120,410 December 31, 1897 128.120 December 31, 1898 135,260 December 31, 1899 136.110 December 1, 1900¹ 142,733 December 31, 1901 148,796 December 31, 1902 150.420 December 31, 1903 156,677 December 31, 1904 167,570

date Residents December 1, 1905¹ 175,577 December 31, 1906 183,851 December 31, 1907 191,581 December 31, 1908 199.311 December 31, 1909 207.041 December 1, 1910¹ 214.226 December 31, 1911 224,399 December 31, 1912 237,515 December 31, 1913 250,778 December 1, 1916¹ 279.030 December 5, 1917¹ 261,581 October 8, 1919¹ 295.026 December 31, 1919 305,900 December 31, 1920 313,752 December 31, 1921 327.865 December 31, 1922 327,808 December 31, 1923 321,630 December 31, 1924 322,607 June 16, 1925¹ 321.743

date Residents December 31, 1925 324.280 December 31, 1926 325.937 December 31, 1927 328,707 December 31, 1928 465.196 December 31, 1929 537.891 December 31, 1930 535.087 December 31, 1931 533.333 December 31, 1932 532,521 June 16, 1933¹ 540,875 December 31, 1933 543.413 December 31, 1934 542.935 December 31, 1935 541.799 December 31, 1936 543,942 December 31, 1937 546.076 December 31, 1938 543,700 May 17, 1939¹ 542.261 December 31, 1939 546,300 December 31, 1940 542.200

¹ census result

Source: City of Dortmund

From 1945 to 1989

(respective territorial status)

date Residents April 30, 1945 341,000 December 31, 1945 433.156 October 29, 1946¹ 436.491 December 31, 1947 459.731 September 13, 1950¹ 507.349 December 31, 1951 534,639 December 31, 1952 554,498 December 31, 1953 579,525 September 25, 1956¹ 607.885 June 6, 1961¹ 641.480 December 31, 1961 643.921 December 31, 1962 648.085 December 31, 1963 651.138 December 31, 1964 653.833

date Residents December 31, 1965 657.804 December 31, 1966 655.244 December 31, 1967 648.912 December 31, 1968 645.844 December 31, 1969 649.006 May 27, 1970¹ 639.634 December 31, 1970 642.680 December 31, 1971 642.396 December 31, 1972 637,862 December 31, 1973 632.317 December 31, 1974 628.198 December 31, 1975 630.609 December 31, 1976 617,590 December 31, 1977 612,769

date Residents December 31, 1978 609.954 December 31, 1979 605.418 December 31, 1980 608.297 December 31, 1981 605.418 December 31, 1982 599,521 December 31, 1983 589.955 December 31, 1984 579,697 December 31, 1985 572.094 December 31, 1986 568.164 May 25, 1987¹ 584.089 December 31, 1987 583,793 December 31, 1988 587,328 December 31, 1989 594.058

¹ census result

Sources: City of Dortmund (until 1970), State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia (from 1971)

Since 1990

(respective territorial status)

date Residents December 31, 1990 599.055 December 31, 1991 601.007 December 31, 1992 600,669 December 31, 1993 601.966 December 31, 1994 600.918 December 31, 1995 598,840 December 31, 1996 597.024 December 31, 1997 594,866 December 31, 1998 591.733 December 31, 1999 590.213

date Residents December 31, 2000 588.994 December 31, 2001 589.240 December 31, 2002 590.831 December 31, 2003 589,661 December 31, 2004 588,680 December 31, 2005 588.168 December 31, 2006 587.624 December 31, 2007 586.909 December 31, 2008 584.412 December 31, 2009 581,308

date Residents December 31, 2010 580,444 December 31, 2011 571,403 December 31, 2012 572.087 December 31 2013 575,944 December 31, 2014 580.511 December 31, 2015 586.181 December 31, 2016 585.813 December 31, 2017 586,600 December 31, 2018 587.010 December 31, 2019 588.250

Source: State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia

Population projections

Forecasts in the table opposite compared to real developments from 1990 to 2018

In 2009, IT.NRW predicted a decline in Dortmund's population to 571,900 by 2030 in its “forecast of population development in North Rhine-Westphalia”.

In its "Guide to Commune" published in 2006, in which the Bertelsmann Foundation provided data on the development of the population of 2,927 municipalities in Germany, a population decline of 2.3 percent (13,706 people) was predicted for Dortmund between 2006 and 2025.

In their 2009 publication “Who, where, how many? - Population in Germany 2025 ”, in which the Bertelsmann Foundation provided data on the development of the population for all municipalities with more than 5,000 inhabitants in Germany, a 5.2 percent decline in Dortmund's population between 2009 and 2030 (30,460 people) was predicted .

If you compare the IT.NRW forecast from 2009 with the Bertelsmann Foundation's forecast for 2030, which was corrected in 2009, these two already differ by four percent (IT.NRW 571,900 inhabitants compared to Bertelsmann 550,460 inhabitants, which is an effective difference already 21,440 inhabitants).

In 2015 IT.NRW corrected its own forecast. An increase of 25,300 inhabitants by 2025 (period 10 years) has now been predicted. By the year 2040, the population was forecast to rise by 5.1% to 604,100 people. This revised IT.NRW's own forecast from 2009 (only six years ago), which had forecast a decline to around 575,000 inhabitants.

Absolute population development for Dortmund (main residences) - forecasts from 2006 and 2009 (Ref 2012–2030):

Forecast 2006

date	Residents
December 31, 2006	587.624
December 31, 2010	586,618
December 31, 2015	584.001
December 31, 2020	579,849
December 31, 2025	573.918

Source: Bertelsmann Foundation

Forecast 2009

date	Residents
December 31, 2009	580.920
December 31, 2015	576.020
December 31, 2020	569,340
December 31, 2025	560.770
December 31, 2030	550,460

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 influx of refugees . For Dortmund, a population decline of 2.56% is predicted from 2015 to 2030 despite the influx of refugees.

Population structure

According to the city's own statistics, the largest groups of foreigners legally registered in Dortmund on December 31, 2018 are from Turkey, Syria, Poland, Romania, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Morocco, Iraq, Croatia, Ukraine and Macedonia. The proportion of foreigners on December 31, 2018 was 18.2%. The official statistics do not include naturalized persons and German-born children of foreign origin as foreigners.

population	As of December 31, 2018
Residents with main residence	602,566
0of which male	298,434
0Female	304.132
German	492.845
0of which male	239.739
0Female	253.106
Foreigners	109,721
0of which male	58,695
0Female	51,026
Proportion of foreigners in percent	18.2

Source: City of Dortmund

Share of foreigners (without German citizenship) 2018

nationality	Population (Dec 31, 2018)
Turkey	21,689
Syria	9,906
Poland	9,806
Romania	5.114
Spain	4,248
Greece	4.185
Bulgaria	3,925
Italy	3,731
Morocco	3,256
Iraq	2,707
Croatia	2,372
Ukraine	2,328
North Macedonia	2,199
Serbia	2.156
Russia	1.932
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,891
Portugal	1,831
People's Republic of China	1,605
Kosovo	1,480
Hungary	1,327

Source: City of Dortmund

age structure

The following overview shows the development of the total population and the individual age groups from 1990 to 2009. All data are from December 31 of the respective year.

year	Total population	Age: 0-14	Age: 15 to 64	Age: from 65
1990	599.055	83.154	419.001	96,900
1991	601.007	84,853	418.137	98.017
1992	600,669	86,031	415,470	99.168
1993	601.966	87,361	413,790	100,815
1994	600.918	87,867	410.841	102.210
1995	598,840	87,772	407,333	103.735
1996	597.024	87,923	404.783	104,318
1997	594,866	87,760	402,596	104,510
1998	591.733	87,256	399.841	104,636
1999	590.213	86,845	397.182	106.186
2000	588.994	86,586	394,460	107,948
2001	589.240	86,036	392,999	110.205
2002	590.831	85.175	393,435	112.221
2003	589,661	84.126	391.174	114,361
2004	588,680	82,916	388.705	117.059
2005	588.168	81,574	387,409	119.185
2006	587.624	80.140	386.464	121.020
2007	586.909	78,851	386.413	121,645
2008	584.412	77,719	384.710	121,983
2009	581,308	76,686	382,405	122.217

Source: State database NRW of the State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia

year	population	Age: 0-6	Age: 6-18	Age: 18-40	Age: 40-65	Age: 65 and older
2010	576.704	28,443	64,048	160,691	204.955	118,567
2011	578.126	28,286	63.251	161,519	206,625	118,445
2012	579.012	28,363	62,619	162,979	206,792	118.259
2013	583,658	28,928	62,527	166,683	206,968	118,552
2014	589.283	29,956	62,885	170,444	206.381	119,617
2015	596,575	31,184	63,288	175,795	206,429	119,879
2016	601.150	32,265	64.122	178.102	206,590	120,071
2017	601.780	33,245	63,753	178.252	205.858	120,672
2018	602,566	33,941	63,688	178,618	205.113	121.206

Source: City of Dortmund

Townships

See also : List of Dortmund districts

The population figures refer to December 31, 2017 (main residences).

Borough	population	Area in km²	Population density	Number of foreigners	Foreigner %
Aplerbeck	55,569	24.98	2,225	4,347	7.8
Brackel	56,110	30.88	1,817	5,976	10.7
Eving	38,237	22.89	1,670	9,127	23.9
Hombruch	57.003	34.98	1,630	5,703	10.0
Hear	56.014	29.79	1,880	7,931	14.2
Huckarde	36,508	15.1	2,418	5,843	16.0
Downtown north	59,479	14.42	4.128	31,069	53.1
Downtown East	56,776	11.27	5,040	8,713	15.3
Downtown West	52,970	13.76	3,850	9,608	18.1
Lütgendortmund	48,840	22.44	2.176	6,628	13.6
Amount of money	38,909	28.77	1,353	6,633	17.0
Scharnhorst	46.128	31.44	1,467	8,143	17.7
Dortmund	602,566	280.71 km²	2,147 inhabitants / km²	109,721	18.2

Source: City of Dortmund

See also

• History of the city of Dortmund
• List of Dortmund districts

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

1. ↑ IT.NRW: Press release from August 29, 2014 ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 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. 
2. ↑ IT.NRW: Official population update as of June 30, 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 19, 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. (Administrative region of Arnsberg) 
3. ↑ IT.NRW: Official population update as of June 30, 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2010 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. (District of Düsseldorf) 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Population by gender and age group on December 31. (PDF) City of Dortmund, Dortmund statistics, accessed on July 25, 2019 . 
5. ↑ IT.NRW: Press release from May 13, 2009: New forecast of population development in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2011 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. 
6. ↑ IT.NRW: Forecast of the population from 2008 to 2030/2050 in NRW ( Memento of the original from March 8, 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. 
7. ↑ IT.NRW: Population development in the independent cities and districts of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2008 to 2030 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2013 on WebCite ) 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; 258 kB) 
8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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. 
9. ^ Bertelsmann Foundation: Population forecast
10. ↑ 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
11. ↑ ^{a b c d} Population according to selected nationalities. (PDF) City of Dortmund, Statistics Department, accessed on July 25, 2019 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Population by gender and nationality in the statistical districts. (PDF) City of Dortmund, Statistics Department, accessed on July 25, 2019 . 
13. ↑ State database NRW: population according to age group of 5 - municipalities - reference date (data query)

Web links

• State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia: Statistics
• City of Dortmund: Department of Statistics
• Bertelsmann Foundation: Guide to the community