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

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