About Nijmegen: facts & figures

Nijmegen counts about 160,000 inhabitants, and this number will continue to grow, for example because new suburbs are being built in the northern part of the city. Results of the presence of the Radboud University and the Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen (higher vocational education) are the relatively high percentage of inhabitants in their twenties (ex-students), a low birthrate and many smaller households.

Most of the inhabitants (about 120,000) are from Dutch origin. Overall, the other 40,000 people can be divided in groups of thousands of people originating from Turkey, Morocco, the Antilles and Aruba, Surinam, Indonesia, former Republic of Yugoslavia, Germany and Belgium, and smaller groups of hundreds from Greece, Spain, Vietnam, Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, China/Hongkong, Great Britain, France and Ethiopia.

Most striking aspects of the 112,000 working inhabitants of Nijmegen, are the relatively high education level, large percentage of parttime workers and the strong emphasis on education, government and health in the economy. The employment rate is growing.

In the Netherlands people are allowed to vote from the age of 18. In the last city council elections of 2006, 58% placed their votes; the majority voted left wing (24 out of 39 seats- Partij van de Arbeid, SP, GroenLinks).

Looking for more facts and figures on Nijmegen?
The municipal department of Research and Statistics has done research on various topics and owns many statistics on various aspects of Nijmegen (people, economy, housing, employment, culture, health, security, and so on). The results are only available in Dutch on this website, but our employees will gladly help you by answering your specific questions in English. Please send an e-mail to onderzoek.statistiek@nijmegen.nl.

Facts and figures about the province of Gelderland can be found at the website Gelderlandfacts.

The website www.oostnv.com also provides information about business in the eastern part of the Netherlands.