A third more people live in the district of Emmendingen than 50 years ago. It has had more growth than Freiburg, but less than the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district.
Since the 1973 district reform, the number of inhabitants in the Emmendingen district has increased by 32.9%. This is what emerges from a press release from the State Statistics Office of Baden-Württemberg. While there were around 126,500 residents in the district in 1973, the number rose to around 168,100 by 2022. The change in southern Baden was only greater in the neighboring Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district. Its population grew the most in all of Baden-Württemberg. In Freiburg, on the other hand, the increase was 29.8%.
With the District Reform Act, which took effect on January 1, 1973, the number of urban and rural districts was reduced from 72 to 44. According to the assessment of the State Bureau of Statistics, regional development has varied greatly in individual decades. Until the turn of the millennium, the surrounding area was particularly popular with people moving to the area. Since 2000, the situation has changed and urban districts have achieved above-average population growth. The only exceptions here were the cities of Mannheim and Baden-Baden.
However, this trend has stalled in recent years. According to the State Bureau of Statistics, the main reason for this is the housing shortage in cities. Above all, it has driven families away.
