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Düsseldorf is the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia and a city with the highest accessibility within Europe. More than 150 million people live within a radius of 500 kilometres, representing 31 % of the European Union's total population. Düsseldorf is an international city with a growing population. People from around 180 nations live there. Düsseldorf is also an economically thriving metropolis with best values on GDP, income and purchasing power.

On this page you will find a few selected statistics from the major subject areas.

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Labour Market

	City of Düsseldorf
	Key date	Data
Unemployed in Düsseldorf (place of residence)	31.12.2025	28 062
thereof
Female	31.12.2025	12 905
Percentage of women among all unemployed	31.12.2025	46.0
Unemployed under 25 years	31.12.2025	1 774
Percentage of unemployed people under 25 years from all unemployed	31.12.2025	6.3
Unemployment rate relating to all civilian labour force (in %)	31.12.2024	9.0

Source: Working group "Employment statistics of the federal and state governments", Statistics from the Federal Employment Agency, IT.NRW, own calculation.

Total number of persons gainfully employed in Düsseldorf (place of work/ number in 1.000)	30.06.2023	576.6
Employees subject to social insurance contributions in Düsseldorf (place of work)	30.06.2025	460 155

Employees subject to social insurance contributions in Düsseldorf (place of residence)	30.06.2025	272 197
Employment rate (in %)	30.06.2025	60.6
thereof
Female	30.06.2025	131 468
Employment rate of women (in %)	30.06.2025	58.3

Population

	City of Düsseldorf
	Key Date	Data

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Statistics and Election, Population Register.

People with a migration background	31.12.2025	306 849

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Statistics and Election, Population Register, MigraPro.

Inbound migration (external migration)	31.12.2025	41 490
Outbound migration (external migration)	31.12.2025	39 334
Net migration gain	31.12.2025	+ 2 156

Migration movement	31.12.2025	36 533

Births	31.12.2025	5 431
Death	31.12.2025	6 379
Birth or Death surplus	31.12.2025	-948

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Statistics and Election, Population Register, Movement Data.

Private Households Total	31.12.2025	371 735
thereof
1-Person-Household	31.12.2025	203 085
2-Person-Household	31.12.2025	92 925
3-and more Person-Household	31.12.2025	75 725
Average size of Household	31.12.2025	1.80
Families with kids under 18 years	31.12.2025	62 373
Single parent with kids under 18 years	31.12.2025	14 055

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Statistics and Election, Statistical extract from the population register, generating Households (HHgen).

Total	31.12.2025	659 312
thereof (in %)
Female	31.12.2025	51.3
Male	31.12.2025	48.7

Age from ... till under ... years
under 6	31.12.2025	32 557
6 till under 18 years	31.12.2025	69 008
18 till under 30 years	31.12.2025	98 328
30 till under 50 years	31.12.2025	201 735
50 till under 65 years	31.12.2025	132 457
65 till under 80 years	31.12.2025	84 431
80 years and older	31.12.2025	40 796

Average age	31.12.2025	43.2

Foreigners	31.12.2025	165 117
thereof: most common foreign nationalities
Turkish (in %)	31.12.2025	7.7
Ukraine (in %)	31.12.2025	7.2
Greek (in %)	31.12.2025	5.5

Education

	City of Düsseldorf
	Key Date	Data
Gymnasien	31.12.2025	19
Realschulen	31.12.2025	14
Hauptschulen	31.12.2025	7
Gesamtschulen	31.12.2025	7
Förderschulen (Special schools)	31.12.2025	7

Pupils at public schools	31.12.2025	56 504
thereof at
Primary schools (Grundschulen)	31.12.2025	22 262
Secondary schools
thereof at
Gymnasien	31.12.2025	17 377
Realschulen	31.12.2025	7 335
Hauptschulen	31.12.2025	2 166
Gesamtschulen	31.12.2025	5 854
Förderschulen (Special schools)	31.12.2025	1 510

Pupils at public schools living in Düsseldorf	31.12.2025	55 414
thereof at
Primary schools (Grundschulen)	31.12.2025	22 014
Secondary schools
thereof at
Gymnasien	31.12.2025	16 943
Realschulen	31.12.2025	7 137
Hauptschulen	31.12.2025	2 119
Gesamtschulen	31.12.2025	5 732
Förderschulen (Special schools)	31.12.2025	1 469

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Statistics and Election.

Public schools	31.12.2025	141
thereof
Primary schools (Grundschulen)	31.12.2025	87
Secondary schools
thereof

Geography - Actual land use

	City of Düsseldorf
	Key date	Data

Area (in ha)¹⁾	31.12.2020	21 662.06
thereof (in %)
General resident building areas	31.12.2020	18.32
Industrial building areas	31.12.2020	6.13
Mixed building areas	31.12.2020	2.94
Special building areas	31.12.2020	1.55
Maintenance and disposal	31.12.2020	0.92
Traffic areas	31.12.2020	15.63
Water areas	31.12.2020	7.25
Green space	31.12.2020	9.42
Agriculture and sivilculture areas	31.12.2020	34.95
Public purpose land	31.12.2020	2.90
¹⁾Total surface of the selected areas (not total surface of Düsseldorf)

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for urban planning, own calculation.

Estate, building and living

	City of Düsseldorf
	Key Date	Date

Residential building	31.12.2024	72 633
thereof
Buildings with one or two dwellings	31.12.2024	36 031
Non-residential buildings with dwellings	31.12.2024	2 997
Total of dwellings	31.12.2024	369 967
Publicly promoted dwellings	31.12.2024	14 518
Rate of publicly promoted dwellings (in %)	31.12.2024	3.9
Dwellings used by owners (in %)	31.12.2024	18.9
Information: Due to the recent plausibility check of the housing stock, older dwellings were followed up. These follow-ups were respected in the extrapolation of the estate- and housing stocks 2022.
Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Statistics and Election, Building data file; Office for Housing.

Construction activity - Building permits
New residential buildings by new building	31.12.2025	201
thereof
Buildings with one or two dwellings	31.12.2025	131
Dwellings in residential buildings	31.12.2025	2 079
Non-residential buildings through new construction	31.12.2025	24
Useful area in non-residential buildings (in m²)	31.12.2025	125 986
Total number of dwellings	31.12.2025	3 004
thereof
by new building	31.12.2025	2 080

Construction activity - Completions
New residential buildings by new building	31.12.2025	136
thereof
Buildings with one or two dwellings	31.12.2025	74
Dwellings in residential buildings	31.12.2025	1 525
Non-residential buildings through new construction	31.12.2025	32
Useful area in non-residential buildings (in m²)	31.12.2025	156 065
Total number of dwellings	31.12.2025	1 704
thereof
by new building	31.12.2025	1 530

Source: IT.NRW.

Transportation

	City of Düsseldorf
	Key Date	Data

Motor vehicles
Number of motor vehicles	31.12.2025	376 449
thereof
Passenger Cars	31.12.2025	319 060
Trucks	31.12.2025	24 565
Motorcycles	31.12.2025	25 184
Other motor vehicles	31.12.2025	7 640

Registration of new motor veicles	31.12.2024	35 868
thereof
Passenger Cars	31.12.2024	29 723

Source: KBA-Flensburg.

Commuter (preliminary Numbers for the 30th of june, only employers with social insurance contributions)
Inbound commuters (to Düsseldorf)	30.06.2025	288 888
Outbound commuters (from Düsseldorf)	30.06.2025	101 159
Commuters appearance	30.06.2025	390 047
Commuters proportion	30.06.2025	+ 187 729
Inbound commuters/employers with social insurance distributions (in %)	30.06.2025	62.8
Outbound commuters/employers with social insurance distributions (in %)	30.06.2025	37.2

Source: Statistics from the Federal Employment Agency.

Rheinbahn
Passengers (in Mio). Due to a modified calculation system the comparability of the passengers is not given from the year 2019.	31.12.2024	205
Busses
Lines	31.12.2024	121
Total length (in km)	31.12.2022	1 721
Tram
Lines	31.12.2024	7
Total length (in km)	31.12.2022	79
City railway
Lines	31.12.2024	11
Total length (in km)	31.12.2022	206

Source: Rheinbahn AG.

Airport Düsseldorf International
Passengers (in Mio.)	31.12.2025	21.0
thereof
Passengers in departure (in Mio.)	31.12.2025	10.5
Passengers in arrival (in Mio.)	31.12.2025	10.5

Source: Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH.

Road traffic accidents
Accidents	31.12.2025	27 117
with personal injury	31.12.2025	2 572
Accident victim	31.12.2025	3 179
thereof
Victims with minor injuries	31.12.2025	2 863
Victims with major injuries	31.12.2025	307
Killed people	31.12.2025	9

Source: IT.NRW

Social security

	City of Düsseldorf
	Key Date	Data

Source: Statistics from the Federal Employment Agency, own calculation.

Purchaser of guaranteed minimum pension due to age or reduction in earning capacity after SGB XII¹⁾	31.12.2025	14 919
thereof
18 till under 65 years (reduction in earning capacities)	31.12.2025	3 560
Proportion of people from 18 till under 65 years (in%)	31.12.2025	0.8
65 years and older (pension due to age)	31.12.2025	11 359
Proportion of people 65 years and older (in %)	31.12.2025	9.1

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for social security and integration, own calculation.
¹⁾As part of the implementation of the Federal Participation Act, from 1 January 2020 there will be a separation between specialist integration assistance benefits on the one hand and subsistence benefits under SGB XII on the other, which means that people in special forms of housing can also receive subsistance benefits under SGB XII. From 2020, the allocation of recipients of guaranteed minimum pension and in the event of reduced earning capacity will be based on the age of the recipient. This means that the type of allocation differs from previous years.

Households that receive housing benefit	31.12.2025	13 972
Proportion on all households in Düsseldorf	31.12.2025	3.8

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Housing, own calculation.

Households (BG) under SGB II	31.12.2025	26 335
thereof
with children under 15 years	31.12.2025	6 558
with one person	31.12.2025	15 767
Average number of people in communities of need	31.12.2025	1.9

Persons in households for social security purposes under SGB II	31.12.2025	48 743
Proportion of people aged 65 years (in %)	31.12.2025	9.1
thereof
Female	31.12.2025	24 284
Foreigners	31.12.2025	23 034
Children under 15 years	31.12.2025	11 546

Care & Health System

	City of Düsseldorf
	Key Date	Data

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Youth, own calculation.

The elderly and people in need of care
Facilities (Full time)	31.12.2024	56
Places	31.12.2024	4 726
Advice and meeting centers	31.12.2024	32

Source: State capital Duesseldorf - Office for Social Security and Integration, own calculation.

Health

Accredited panel doctor	31.12.2025	1 109
Accredited dentist	31.12.2025	387
Pharmacy	31.12.2025	170

Source: North Rine Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, North Rhine Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists, Estate capital Duesseldorf - Office for Health.

Youth Facilities
Daycare	31.12.2024	397
Places (including places for schoolchildren)	31.12.2024	24 408
Of which for children aged
under 3 years	31.12.2024	5 804
from 3 up to 6 years	31.12.2024	18 604
Facilities for children and teenagers	31.12.2024	66

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