Population

With almost 90,000 inhabitants, Zwickau is the fourth largest city in the Free State of Saxony after Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. Zwickau as a regional centre has a catchment area of about 480,000 people.

Population mix

	31.12.2018	30.06.2019
Residents with primary residence	90.105	89.551
of which
male	44.221	43.913
female	45.884	45.638
of which at the age of ... years
0 bis 6	5.155	5.091
7 bis 14	5.559	5.530
15 bis 25	7.789	7.716
26 bis 40	16.313	16.083
41 bis 64	29.444	29.172
65 and older	25.845	25.959
additional information
Average age of inhabitants with main residence	47,7	-
Percentage of foreigners in the population with main residence	5,8	5,9
Inhabitants with secondary residence	3.563	3.442

Natural and spatial population movement

Persons	2018	2017
Births	739	756
Birth rate (births per 1,000 inhabitants)	8,2	8,3
Deaths	1.404	1.295
Death rate (deaths per 1,000 inhabitants)	15,6	14,3
People moving into the city	4.070	4.201
People moving out of the city	3.949	3.874
Moves within Zwickau	5.581	5.983

Composition of households

Households	31.12.2018	31.12.2017
Total	49.859	50.222
of which
Single person households	23.521	23.522
Two-person households	16.521	16.769
Three-person households	5.824	6.056
Four-person households	2.924	2.864
Households with 5 and more persons	1.069	1.011
Households with children
Households with children under 18 years	8.076	8.119
of which
with one child	4.689	4.778
with two child	2.561	2.546
with three or more children	826	795

Source: Register of residents of the City of Zwickau

Population mix

Natural and spatial population movement

Composition of households

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