The English-speaking population of Munich

The following figures are compiled from muenchen.de - population statistics. Note that this only includes residents who have registered with the KVR. The data is accurate as of 31.Dec.1999 - although the stats don't change much from year to year.

See also Expats in Munich and Expats in Germany for some more statistics.

Demographically, women are generally considered less mobile than men. And these figures support that.
So why is the number of women lower than the number of men for every major group except the South Africans? Any South Africans out there willing /able to explain this particular quirk?

The German office of statistics published the latest "foreigner" figures (current to 31.3.2003) last week - they make interesting reading.

• 289,610 foreigners from 181 countries live in Munich
  
• That's 22.9% of the Munich population
  
• Munich has the second highest concentration of foreigners, behind Frankfurt (26.4%) and in front of Stuttgart (22.5%)
  
• There are 237,817 European "foreigners", of which 4,885 are British and 1,068 are Irish
  
• Around a third of foreigners are EU, with 21,675 Austrians, 21,519 Italians and 23,358 Greeks
  
• There are 5,117 Americans, 583 Australians, and 94 New Zealanders
  
• Although there are no accepted "Ghettos" in Munich, Schwantaler Höhe has 40.2% foreign residents, Ludwigsvorstadt has 31.1% and Milbertshofen has 22.7%
  
• The highest foreign representation is the Turkish folk with 44,425 people, although these are actually less than the previous Yugoslavian combination of "new" Yugoslavia (25,164) and Croatia (25,155) together.
  
• There are "only" around 25,000 Asylum seekers in Munich, from 80 different countries.
  
• 12,000 foreigners are self employed, that's around 10% of those capable of working (12% of working Germans are self-employed)
  
• There are 190 cultural institutes and 30 "foreign" sports clubs - mainly football clubs.
  
• 9 International schools cater for non-German education in Munich.
  

These details are taken from the first part of a new, regular series on foreigners life in Munich in the weekend edition of the Münchener Merkur newspaper

YL6

Many employees of international organisations (e.g. European Union and European Parliament staff based in Erhardtstr.) are not required to register with the Ausländeramt and many do not register with the Meldeamt either (and that is legal too).
So the true higher is even higher.
Katrina

I also know a lot of Aussies who are here on EU passports. They have dual citizenship - usually because of parent's background and are thus registered as nationals of that country. I reckon the actual number of Aussies is about double what's officially recorded

I wonder why the number of Irish declined? Looks like all the others increased.

Hazza's spot on... there's lots of South Africans like myself that are here on EU passports and so never fall into the official statistics. Still, it's interesting how many more South Africans there are in Munich than I thought.

koala, unfortunately I can't shed any light on your question... would love to know myself!

its simply due to less irish people coming out to munich than are leaving ireland. It is not exclusively a munich specific thing.

From the irish central statistic office:

Currently, one third of the imigrants to Ireland are actually irish, which means that the population of irish abroad is shrinking overall. I suppose a lot just jumped at the chance to move home over the past number of years when the job market in ireland was booming. Not a cooincidence maybe either that it hit munich especially hard seeing as the new jobs in ireland are mostly high skilled technical/ engineering jobs, which seems to be what a lot of ex pats are doing in munich.

anyways, info sheet is available here!

You misunderstood me Carm.

What I meant was that a LOT of people who regard themselves as Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Canadians etc register in Munich under their British Passport IF they have one (as it much easier) and therefore appear on the stats as British. Which in that legal sense, they are.

I'm on the stats as British but if I took on German citizenship as well, I'd disapear so to speak, but still have a sense of humour!

And I don't even show up, since I live outside the city limits.
Perhaps if you added the nice bits around MUC the figures would be a bit more representative. A lot of more elderly expats, ie those with families, tend to locate in the outlying districts such as Starnberg, Bad Tölz/Wolfratshausen, Weilheim, Erding, etc - and of course good old Dachau.

Aye PH, there'd be more English speakers but at the same time the % would sink below the (roughly) 1% level as there are proporionately FAR fewer non-Germans living in carrot cruncher land.

Got to be tough for those 15 "Oceanic" women with only 3 Oceanic men to go around...

Interesting population statistics for Munich - 2004 (PDF).

I wondering how comes that the only Vatican citizen is female.

hmmm, there are 19 panamanians. Go figure where the hell are the others!!

That sounds about right. I read somewhere that there were approximately 1,500 Irish in Munich back in 2002 but that many were not registered (figures approximated based on various surveys). A figure of just over 4:1 Brits to Irish makes sense, especially if you then compare these figures to the stats here which show 178:38 Brits:Irish.