Population development in Kaiserslautern

This article shows the development of the population of Kaiserslautern in tabular form, graphically and with explanations.

Population development

 

Population development in Kaiserslautern. Above from 1611 to 2018. Below an excerpt from 1871

In the Middle Ages and early modern times , only a few hundred people lived in Kaiserslautern. The population grew very slowly and fell again and again because of the numerous wars, epidemics and famine. As a result of the devastation in the Thirty Years' War , the population fell from 2,120 in 1611 to only 940 in 1683. It was only with the start of industrialization that a strong population growth began in Kaiserslautern. In 1800 only 3,000 people lived in the city, in 1900 there were already 48,000.

During the Second World War , the city was badly damaged by numerous Allied air raids. The population fell by 25.2 percent from 70,713 in May 1939 to 52,880 in December 1945. The post-war period was marked by the reconstruction of the city and the influx of numerous refugees and displaced persons from the German eastern regions . At the same time, the Kaiserslautern area became the largest US garrison outside the USA. The population rose to more than 87,000 by 1962.

Through the incorporation of several places on February 14 and April 10, 1969, the population of the city exceeded the limit of 100,000, making it a major city . For large cities, the assessment basis in Germany is 100,000 inhabitants. This limit was undercut in the years 1969 to 1970 and 1978 to 1991, as well as from 2000, and thus Kaiserslautern was nominally no longer a large city. On December 31, 2006, the “ official population ” for Kaiserslautern was 98,044 according to an update by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistical Office (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices).

The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. Up to 1827 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 1871, the information relates to the “local population”, from 1925 to the “resident population” and since 1987 to the “population at the location of the main residence”. Before 1871, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey procedures.

From 1611 to 1944

(respective territorial status)

Year / date Residents 1611 2.120 1683 940 1776 2.156 1800 3,000 1810 3,654 1820 4,837 1827 6,294 July 1, 1830¹ 7,292 December 1, 1840 ¹ 8,227 December 3, 1858 ¹ 11,069 December 3, 1861 ¹ 12,100

date Residents December 3, 1864¹ 13,500 December 3, 1867 ¹ 15,300 December 1, 1871 ¹ 17,896 December 1, 1875 ¹ 22,668 December 1, 1880¹ 26,323 December 1, 1885 ¹ 31,452 December 1, 1890¹ 37,047 December 2, 1895 ¹ 40,828 December 1, 1900 ¹ 48,310 December 1, 1905 ¹ 52,306 December 1, 1910¹ 54,659

date Residents December 1, 1916 ¹ 50.104 December 5, 1917 ¹ 50.003 October 8, 1919 ¹ 55,707 December 31, 1920 57,424 June 16, 1925 ¹ 59,336 December 31, 1930 61.164 June 16, 1933 ¹ 62,619 December 31, 1935 63,728 May 17, 1939 ¹ 70.713 December 31, 1940 66,400

¹ census result

From 1945 to 1970

(respective territorial status)

date Residents December 31, 1945 52,880 October 29, 1946 ¹ 55,932 December 31, 1947 56,980 September 13, 1950 ¹ 62,761 December 31, 1951 68.168 December 31, 1952 72,621 December 31, 1953 79,625 September 25, 1956 ¹ 84.145 June 6, 1961 ¹ 86,259 December 31, 1961 86,866

date Residents December 31, 1962 87,300 December 31, 1963 87,680 December 31, 1964 87,590 December 31, 1965 86,375 December 31, 1966 86,410 December 31, 1967 85.010 December 31, 1968 84,613 December 31, 1969 99,859 May 27, 1970 ¹ 99,617 December 31, 1970 100,696

¹ census result

Source: Kaiserslautern city administration

From 1971

(respective territorial status)

date Residents December 31, 1971 101.158 December 31, 1972 101,616 December 31, 1973 102,450 December 31, 1974 102.119 December 31, 1975 100,886 December 31, 1976 100,383 December 31, 1977 100.106 December 31, 1978 99,427 December 31, 1979 99.197 December 31, 1980 98,745 December 31, 1981 98,563 December 31, 1982 98,774 December 31, 1983 99.002

date Residents December 31, 1984 98,212 December 31, 1985 97,664 December 31, 1986 96,766 May 25, 1987 ¹ 97,326 December 31, 1987 96,393 December 31, 1988 96,990 December 31, 1989 97,625 December 31, 1990 99.351 December 31, 1991 100,541 December 31, 1992 101,803 December 31, 1993 102,370 December 31, 1994 101.910 December 31, 1995 102.002

date Residents December 31, 1996 101,549 December 31, 1997 101,315 December 31, 1998 100,689 December 31, 1999 100.025 December 31, 2000 99,825 December 31, 2001 99,794 December 31, 2002 99,469 December 31, 2003 99,095 December 31, 2004 99.182 December 31, 2005 98,372 December 31, 2006 98.044 December 31, 2007 97,770 December 31, 2008 97,436

date Residents December 31, 2009 99.275 December 31, 2010 99.184 May 9, 2011 ¹ 96,340 December 31, 2011 96,963 December 31, 2012 97.112 December 31 2013 97.162 December 31, 2014 97,382 December 31, 2015 98,520 December 31, 2016 99,302 December 31, 2017 99,684 December 31, 2018 99,845 December 31, 2019 100.030

¹ census result

Source: State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate

Population forecast

In its 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 3.1 percent decline in Kaiserslautern's population (3,042 people) is predicted between 2003 and 2020.

Absolute population development 2003-2020 - forecast for Kaiserslautern (main residences):

The forecast to 2020 compared to the real development from 1990 to 2018

date Residents December 31, 2003 99,095 December 31, 2005 98,764 December 31, 2010 98.057 December 31, 2015 97.288 December 31, 2020 96.053

Source: Bertelsmann Foundation

Population structure

population	As of December 31, 2005
Residents with main residence	98,372
of which male	48.993
Female	49,379
German	86,690
Foreigners	11,682
Proportion of foreigners in percent	11.9

Source: State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate

age structure

The following overview shows the age structure as of December 31, 2004 (main and secondary residences).

Age from - to population Percentage 0 - 5 4,816 4.6 6-14 8,401 7.9 15-20 6,897 6.5 21-29 16,124 15.2 30-44 24,322 23.0 45 - 59 19,826 18.7 over 60 25,445 24.0 total 105.831 100.0

Source: City of Kaiserslautern

Districts

The population figures refer to December 31, 2004 (main and secondary residences).

district	population	Number of foreigners	Foreigner %
Core city	84,387	9,993	11.8
Bännjerrück / Karl-Pfaff-Siedlung	5,967	571	9.6
Betzenberg	5,001	397	7.9
Erzhütten-Wiesenthalerhof	2,991	98	3.3
Dimple valleys / Volkspark	10,081	812	8.1
Downtown north / Kaiserberg	8,769	913	10.4
Downtown east	11,514	1,591	13.8
Downtown southwest	8,692	1,459	16.9
Downtown West / Kotten	10,886	1,558	14.3
Kaiserslautern-West	9,164	924	10.1
Lämmchesberg / university residential town	11,322	1,673	14.8
Districts	21,444	1,380	6.4
Dansenberg	2,869	113	3.9
Einsiedlerhof	1,545	199	12.9
Erfenbach	3.132	199	6.4
Erlenbach	2,487	81	3.3
Hohenecken	4.034	344	8.5
Mölschbach	1,291	40	3.1
Morlautern	3,380	167	4.9
Siegelbach	2,706	110	4.1
Kaiserslautern	105.831	11,373	10.7

Source: City of Kaiserslautern

See also

• History of the city of Kaiserslautern
• List of cultural monuments in Kaiserslautern

literature

• 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

Web links

• State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Publications
• City administration Kaiserslautern: Statistical data
• Bertelsmann Stiftung: Guide to Demographic Change

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Population in Rhineland-Palatinate on December 31, 2018 by administrative district ( Memento from January 26, 2019 in the Internet Archive )