Population development of Duisburg

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This article shows the population development of Duisburg in a table and graph.

On December 31, 2015, the " official population " for Duisburg was 491,231 (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices ) according to an update by the State Office for Information and Technology NRW (IT.NRW ).

Population development

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Population development of Duisburg. Above from 1714 to 2018. Below an excerpt from 1871

overview

Continuous settlement of Duisburg can be assumed since the first century AD. In the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the modern era , the city did not exceed 4,000 inhabitants due to the relocation of the Rhine and the loss of its importance as a trading town and later due to wars, epidemics and famine. In 1800 the Klevian city had about 4500 inhabitants, and thus fewer inhabitants than the Klevian cities Wesel and Kleve with 9000 and 7000 inhabitants respectively. Nevertheless, Duisburg was a medium-sized city for the circumstances at the time.

Later than in industrial cities such as Krefeld , Barmen , Elberfeld and Düsseldorf , with industrialization in Duisburg, strong population growth did not begin until the second half of the 19th century. For a long time Duisburg was the largest city in the Ruhr area. In 1903 the city of Duisburg exceeded the limit of 100,000 inhabitants, which made it a major city .

On October 1, 1905, the first major incorporation took place ( Meiderich 33,690 inhabitants in 1900 and Ruhrort 12,406 inhabitants in 1900). In 1929 the city had almost 280,000 inhabitants.

On August 1, 1929, the city of Hamborn (126,043 inhabitants in 1925, 132,547 inhabitants in 1929) and several places from the Angermund district were incorporated. By 1961 the population rose to 500,000.

On January 1, 1975, the population of Duisburg with the incorporation of Rheinhausen (67,610 inhabitants 1974), Walsum (47,433 inhabitants 1974), Homberg (36,140 inhabitants 1974), Rumeln-Kaldenhausen (14,493 inhabitants 1970) and the district Baerl of the municipality of Rheinkamp reached its all-time high. While the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics in North Rhine-Westphalia gives the maximum number of 599,799 people in 1975, the city administration has 608,158. Until the 1980s, it was 10th among the West German cities, ahead of Bremen and Hanover .

At the end of 2011, the city with 488,005 inhabitants was 15th among German cities and 5th within North Rhine-Westphalia. According to the prognosis of the state office, a decline to 449,700 inhabitants is to be expected by 2025.

In 1970, around 650,000 people lived in the area of ​​today's city of Duisburg. The proportion of foreigners at that time was around 5 percent. This increased to 20.8 percent by 2016.

The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. Up to 1810 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 1840 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 1840, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey methods.

From 1714 to September 30, 1905

Marketplace 1850

The first census in Duisburg took place on November 19, 1714 under the name “Specification of all resident landlords and incoles, including the same families and domestics, their profession, handling and trade”.

Of the 2983 people living within the city walls, 170 belonged to the university. 456 people lived in the council villages and the courtyards outside the city walls, so that the entire city had a population of 3609. Of these, 961 were men, 1066 women and 1582 children.

The strongest trade group comprised the cloth factory with 114 people. 14 monks and 18 nuns, 46 carters, 41 cloth weavers, 38 bakers and beer taverns, 37 wool weavers and wool spinners, 27 tailors, 24 linen weavers and 4 cloth traders lived in the city. There were 173 maids, 94 male servants and 92 day laborers. Only 23 people were reindeer.

The following information relates to the inhabitants until 1864 without the so-called Ratsdörfer and the Feldmark of Duisburg (today's Hochfeld and Dellviertel).

Taking into account the Ratsdörfer and the Feldmark, the population of the city grew from 3609 inhabitants in 1714 to 11,856 inhabitants in 1850 to 18,496 inhabitants in 1861 and 21,332 in 1864.

Year / date Residents
1714 2.983
1722 2,935
1740 2,793
1756 2,874
1763 2,678
1767 3,227
1770 3.134
1777 3,342
1784 3,531
1787 3,657
1798 4,530
1810 5,195
December 1, 1816 ¹ 4,508
December 1, 1818 ¹ 5,364
December 1, 1820 ¹ 5,936
date Residents
December 1, 1825 ¹ 6,408
December 1, 1828 ¹ 7,058
December 1, 1831 ¹ 7.005
December 3, 1840¹ 7,021
December 3, 1843 ¹ 7.506
December 3, 1846 ¹ 8,543
December 3, 1849 ¹ 8,948
December 3, 1852 ¹ 9,579
December 3, 1855 ¹ 11,629
December 3, 1858 ¹ 12,674
December 3, 1861 ¹ 13,422
December 3, 1864¹ 14,368
December 3, 1867 ¹ 25,757
December 1, 1871 ¹ 30,533
December 1, 1875 ¹ 36,580
date Residents
December 1, 1880¹ 41,249
December 1, 1885 ¹ 47,519
December 1, 1890¹ 59,285
December 2, 1895 ¹ 70.272
December 31, 1896 72,460
December 31, 1897 74,780
December 31, 1898 77,090
December 31, 1899 87,510
December 1, 1900 ¹ 92,729
December 31, 1901 93,320
December 31, 1902 96,620
December 31, 1903 100,050
December 31, 1904 106,770
September 30, 1905 110.317

¹ census result

From 1905 to 1928

The following table shows the population after the incorporation of Ruhrort and Meiderich on October 1, 1905.

With the incorporation of the two cities, the Duisburg urban area covered an area of ​​7,073 hectares. When the empire was founded in 1871, Alt-Duisburg, Ruhrort and Meiderich had a combined population of almost 50,000. By the end of 1929 the population grew five and a half times. By the turn of the century, the vast majority of immigrants came from the Rhineland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Three quarters of the population had not yet reached the age of 40. Of these, however, only about 50 percent were of working age.

The Lord Mayor Karl Jarres described the increase in the population as frightening, as there was not enough space available for residential development. The city had only about 300 hectares available for rebuilding. Karl Jarres therefore suggested expanding the urban area to include the cities of Homberg and Rheinhausen on the left bank of the Rhine as well as the northern part of the Düsseldorf district and the city of Hamborn.

date Residents
December 1, 1905 ¹ 192.346
December 31, 1906 200,392
December 31, 1907 207.819
December 31, 1908 215.246
December 31, 1909 222,673
December 1, 1910¹ 229.483
December 31, 1911 237.129
December 31, 1912 245.021
date Residents
December 31, 1913 251,750
December 1, 1916 ¹ 225,545
December 5, 1917 ¹ 229,584
October 8, 1919 ¹ 244302
December 31, 1919 248.225
December 31, 1920 254,887
December 31, 1921 259.314
December 31, 1922 260.169
date Residents
December 31, 1923 255.677
December 31, 1924 255.799
June 16, 1925 ¹ 272.252
December 31, 1925 272.736
December 31, 1926 273,492
December 31, 1927 276,495
December 31, 1928 277,671

¹ census result

Source: City of Duisburg

From 1929 to 1974

The following overview shows the population after the incorporation of Hamborn (1929 = 129,828 inhabitants) and parts of the Angermund office on August 1, 1929.

The plan to also incorporate areas on the left bank of the Rhine and to divide the area belonging to the Düsseldorf district between the cities of Düsseldorf and Duisburg in equal parts between the two cities was rejected, as was the plan for a Ruhr estuary city .

As a concession to Hamborn, the new city was initially named Duisburg-Hamborn . The name was changed to Duisburg in 1935.

date Residents
December 31, 1929 441.389
December 31, 1930 441.158
December 31, 1931 441.107
December 31, 1932 441.139
June 16, 1933 ¹ 440.419
December 31, 1933 439.483
December 31, 1934 442,513
December 31, 1935 439,627
December 31, 1936 440.100
December 31, 1937 438,861
December 31, 1938 436,800
May 17, 1939 ¹ 434,646
December 31, 1940 431,300
date Residents
December 31, 1945 322,301
October 29, 1946 ¹ 356,408
December 31, 1947 378.289
September 13, 1950 ¹ 410.783
December 31, 1951 426.853
December 31, 1952 437.616
December 31, 1953 453.311
September 25, 1956 ¹ 476,523
June 6, 1961 ¹ 502.993
December 31, 1961 504.975
December 31, 1962 501.616
December 31, 1963 496.354
December 31, 1964 490.374
date Residents
December 31, 1965 484.930
December 31, 1966 475.858
December 31, 1967 467.780
December 31, 1968 462,572
December 31, 1969 458.916
May 27, 1970 ¹ 454.839
December 31, 1970 454.885
December 31, 1971 448.791
December 31, 1972 442.386
December 31, 1973 435.281
December 31, 1974 428,594

¹ census result

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

From 1975

Duisburg and districts from 1975

As a result of the Ruhr Area Law , the cities and communities Walsum , Rheinhausen , Homberg , Rumeln-Kaldenhausen and Baerl were incorporated into the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1975 . The Düsseldorf law adds areas of the city of Angermund and the municipality of Wittlaer to the city of Duisburg. Some areas of the city of Rheinhausen and the communities of Kapellen and Rumeln-Kaldenhausen are incorporated into Krefeld on this occasion . The expansion of the city of Duisburg turned out to be far weaker than was actually planned. The cities and municipalities of Moers , Kamp-Lintfort , Rheinberg , Neukirchen-Vluyn and Kapellen , which would have driven the population of the city to over 700,000, were able to successfully defend themselves against complete incorporation.

Up until the mid-1980s, Duisburg was one of the ten largest cities in what is now the Federal Republic of Germany.

Within ten years of incorporation, the city lost about twelve percent of its population. Although the population increased again around 1990, the city has been losing population again since 1993, albeit at a slower pace. Compared to 1960, the city lost about 35% of its inhabitants in relation to its area before the municipal territorial reform. Without incorporation, the city would only have 340,000 inhabitants today. No other city in the Ruhr area has seen such a huge decline in its population. The reasons for the decrease are less due to the decline in the birth rate, but primarily to the massive relocation of many parts of the population.

While the city was still in tenth place among the largest German cities in 1975, by 2011 it had fallen back to 15th place behind Dresden , Hanover , Leipzig and Nuremberg .

On December 31, 2012, the " official population " for Duisburg was 486,816 based on the 2011 census based on updates by the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices).

date Residents
December 31, 1975 591,635
December 31, 1976 581,971
December 31, 1977 572.101
December 31, 1978 563.088
December 31, 1979 559.066
December 31, 1980 558.089
December 31, 1981 554.377
December 31, 1982 546,566
December 31, 1983 536.402
December 31, 1984 522.829
December 31, 1985 518.260
December 31, 1986 514,628
May 25, 1987 ¹ 525.378
December 31, 1987 524.502
December 31, 1988 527.447
December 31, 1989 532.152
date Residents
December 31, 1990 535,447
December 31, 1991 537.441
December 31, 1992 539.094
December 31, 1993 536.797
December 31, 1994 536.106
December 31, 1995 535.250
December 31, 1996 532.701
December 31, 1997 529.062
December 31, 1998 523.311
December 31, 1999 519.793
December 31, 2000 514.915
December 31, 2001 512.030
December 31, 2002 508.664
December 31, 2003 506.496
December 31, 2004 504.403
December 31, 2005 501.564
date Residents
December 31, 2006 499.111
December 31, 2007 496,665
December 31, 2008 492,870
December 31, 2009 491.931
December 31, 2010 489,599
May 9, 2011 ¹ 488,468
December 31, 2011 487.470
December 31, 2012 486.816
December 31 2013 486.855
December 31, 2014 485.465
December 31, 2015 491.231
December 31, 2016 499.845
December 31, 2017 498.110
December 31, 2018 498,590

¹ census result

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

Population forecast

In their 2006 “Guide to Demographic Change 2020”, in which the Bertelsmann Foundation provides data on the development of the population of 2,959 municipalities in Germany, a 9.8 percent decline in Duisburg's population (49,449 people) is predicted between 2003 and 2020 . The predicted population decline in the large cities of the Ruhr area is more pronounced in Duisburg than in Essen and Dortmund.

Population 1996–2003 (%) | Duisburg −4.9 | Food −3.6 | Dortmund −1.2 |
Population 2003–2020 (%) | Duisburg −9.8 | Food −6.3 | Dortmund −2.3 |

Absolute population development 2003-2020 - forecast for Duisburg:

The prognoses opposite compared to the real development from 1990 to 2018
date Residents
December 31, 2003 506.496
December 31, 2005 500,342
December 31, 2010 485,574
December 31, 2015 471,694
December 31, 2020 457.047

Source: Bertelsmann Foundation

Absolute population development 2009–2030 - forecast for Duisburg (main residences). During this period, the population is expected to decrease by 33,140 people or 6.7%.

date Residents
December 31, 2009 491,580
December 31, 2015 483.080
December 31, 2020 475,340
December 31, 2025 467.160
December 31, 2030 458.440

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 Duisburg, despite the influx of refugees, a population decline of 6.00% is predicted from 2015 to 2030.

Population structure

The largest groups of foreigners legally registered in Duisburg on December 31, 2016 came from Turkey (34,682), Romania (8,463), Bulgaria (8,816), Syria (7,185), Poland (5,558), Italy (3,594), Serbia (2,541 ), Greece (2,311), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1,894) and Macedonia (1,531).

In 2015, the proportion of citizens with a migration background was 29.5%.

population As of December 31, 2016
Residents with main residence 502.634
of which male 249,674
Female 252.960
German 398.217
of which male 193.265
Female 204,952
Foreigners 104,417
of which male 56,409
Female 48.008
Proportion of foreigners in percent 20.8

Source: City of Duisburg


population As of December 31, 2018
Residents with main residence 502.939
of which male 250.167
Female 252,772
German 393,468
of which male 191.496
Female 201,972
Foreigners 109,471
of which male 58,671
Female 50,800
Proportion of foreigners in percent 21.8

Source: City of Duisburg

Naturalizations

The following table shows the development of the naturalization of foreigners. They acquired German citizenship in the respective year by handing over a certificate of naturalization.

year Naturalizations
2000 3363
2001 2765
2002 1979
2003 2019
2004 1591
2005 1183
2006 1306
2007 1468
2008 1172
2009 1044
2010 1156
2011 1319
2012 1304
2013 1206
2014 1235
2015 717

Source:

age structure

The following overview shows the age structure as of December 31, 2010 (main residences).

Age from ... to population Percentage
0-4 20,639 4.2
5-14 45.606 9.3
15-19 26,815 5.5
20 - 24 29,833 6.1
25-29 28,668 5.9
30-39 59,594 12.2
40-49 78.096 15.9
50 - 59 69.001 14.1
60-64 26,957 5.5
over 65 104,350 21.3
total 489,559 100.0

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

Townships

Territorial status of the city of Duisburg before the municipal reorganization, city districts

Before the municipal reorganization on January 1st, 1975, the Duisburg city area consisted of 6 city districts with a total of 33 city districts.

At the census on May 27, 1970, the city had an area of ​​143.32 square kilometers and 454,839 people. The number of foreigners living in Duisburg was 25,135 (5.5%), the total proportion of people with a migration background was only slightly higher.

The figures in the table below refer to May 27, 1970 (main residences).

Surname Districts Area
in km²
of inhabitants
number
Inhabitants
per km²
District I Old town, Dellviertel Neuenkamp-Kaßlerfeld, Duissern, Neudorf-Nord, Neudorf-Süd 26.20 101,342 3,868
District II Hochfeld, Wanheimerort 8.77 53,302 6,078
District III Bissingheim, Wedau, Rahm, Großenbaum, Buchholz, Huckingen, Ungelsheim,
Wanheim-Angerhausen, Hüttenheim, Ehingen, Serm, Mündelheim
49.65 80.995 1,631
District IV Ruhrort, Laar, Beeckerwerth, Beeck 18.57 41,088 2.213
District V Lower Meiderich, Mediterranean Meiderich, Upper Meiderich 15.17 65.166 4,296
District VI Bruckhausen, Alt-Hamborn, Marxloh, Fahrn, Obermarxloh, Schmidthorst-Neumühl 24.96 112,946 4,525
Duisburg 143.32 454.839 3,174
The current territorial status of the city of Duisburg

Since January 1, 1975, the urban area has consisted of seven urban districts. They are divided into a total of 46 districts. See the list of districts and districts of Duisburg .

The population figures in the following table refer to December 31, 2011 (main residences).

Surname Area
in km²
of inhabitants
number
Inhabitants
per km²

Number of foreigners
Foreigners
in%
Hamborn 20.84 70,862 3,400 14,800 20.9
Homberg / Ruhrort / Baerl 37.10 40,015 1,079 4,904 12.3
Meiderich / Beeck 30.28 71,391 2,358 14,422 20.2
center 34.98 104,900 2,999 20,000 19.1
Rheinhausen 38.68 76,694 1,983 9,557 12.5
south 49.84 72,577 1,456 5,965 8.2
Walsum 21.10 50,399 2,389 5,960 11.8
Duisburg 232.82 486.838 2,091 75,608 15.5

The population figures in the following table refer to December 31, 2016 (main residences).

Surname Area
in km²
of inhabitants
number
Inhabitants
per km²

Number of foreigners
Foreigners
in%
Hamborn 20.84 76.144 3,654 23,150 30.4
Homberg / Ruhrort / Baerl 37.10 40,444 1,090 6,446 15.9
Meiderich / Beeck 30.28 73,725 2,435 19,654 26.7
center 34.98 110,831 3,168 28,038 25.3
Rheinhausen 38.68 77,681 2.008 12,759 16.4
south 49.84 73.041 1,466 7,201 9.9
Walsum 21.10 50,768 2.406 7.169 14.1
Duisburg 232.82 502.634 2.159 104,417 20.8

Sources: City of Duisburg

The number of residents has increased in all districts since 2014. The proportion of foreigners has increased from 15.5% in 2011 to 20.8% at the end of 2016. According to an article in the Rheinische Post dated March 28, 2017, 36.4% in Duisburg now have a migration background. In the Hochfeld district this proportion is 70.7%, in Duisburg-Marxloh it is 66.7%.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Landesbetrieb Information und Technik 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.it.nrw.de
  2. ^ Hermann Waterkamp: The population of Duisburg, Walter Bacmeisters National Verlag Essen, 1941
  3. 487,839 - City of Duisburg  residents by Germans and foreigners, by districts and districts on December 31, 2014 . Retrieved October 4, 2017
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  5. Bertelsmann Foundation: Population projection 2003-2020 ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wegweiser-kommune.de
  6. Bertelsmann Foundation: Population forecast ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wegweiser-kommune.de
  7. 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
  8. City of Duisburg:  Duisburg quarterly figures (PDF), accessed on February 26, 2017
  9. IT.NRW - Publication Service: Extended Search. In: webshop.it.nrw.de. Retrieved November 18, 2016 .
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  12. Duisburg.de: residents by Germans and foreigners, by districts and districts on December 31, 2016 (PDF; 15 kB)
  13. http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duisburg/mehr-als-jeder-dritte-mit-migrationsverbindungen-aid-1.6717219 More than every third person with a migration background, Rheinische Post of March 28, 2017

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