Krefeld In Krefeld nothing can be seen of the spill over effect from Düsseldorf. The competition in the bacon belt is great. Other municipalities are a big step ahead with their settlement policy.
Over the past decade, the number of residents in Krefeld has risen by around 5,000 to 226,844. In 2011 there were still 221,864 men, women and children. Compared to 2019, the number of inhabitants in 2020 is falling again more strongly than the national trend with minus 0.25 percent. The State Office for Data Processing and Statistics (IT.NRW) counted 227,417 inhabitants in 2019.
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The number of inhabitants is an important criterion. A stable or increasing number means that the infrastructure in Krefeld will continue to be paid for by the citizens in the future. It is also an indication of the attractiveness as a place to live. The statistics for Krefeld do not provide any evidence for the often apostrophized so-called spill over effect from the state capital. For that, Krefeld is obviously too slow with its settlement policy compared to other municipalities in the suburb of Düsseldorf.
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At the end of 2020, there were 17,925,570 people in North Rhine-Westphalia. As reported by the state statistical office, the population was 21,651 (minus 0.1 percent) lower than a year earlier. For the first time since 2011, the number of inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia decreased compared to the previous year. In 2020, 44,275 more people died in North Rhine-Westphalia than were born in the same period. The positive net migration – 24,211 more people moved to NRW than left the state in the same period – could not compensate for the decline in population.
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The population development varied from region to region: Im
Arnsberg administrative district, the population fell the most (minus 0.3 percent), followed by the administrative districts of Düsseldorf, Detmold and Cologne (each minus 0.1 percent). In the administrative district of Münster the
Population almost unchanged. Cologne remains the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth largest city in Germany with 1,083,498 inhabitants, followed by Düsseldorf (620,523), Dortmund (587,696) and Essen (582,415). The smallest municipality is Dahlem in the district of Euskirchen with 4301 inhabitants. The average age of the population was 44.3 years (women: 45.6 years; men: 42.9 years). The “youngest” community was Augustdorf in the Lippe district at 38.8 years of age, while the “oldest” community was Bad Sassendorf in the Soest district at 50.1 years of age.
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