Population
- 15th century - 7,300 inhabitants (one of the larger towns of Bohemia) with about 400 houses, plus 200 in suburbs
- 1930 - 31,406 inhabitants, of whom 3,493 (11%) were Czech.
- 1945 - 45,000 inhabitants
- 1947 - 14,533 inhabitants, due to the expulsion of ethnic Germans and resettlement of Czechs
- 1990 - 29,962 inhabitants (1,837 houses)
- 2005 - 33,462 inhabitants
The current population includes a large group of Vietnamese, whose families were invited to the country as guest workers during the Communist era, and Roma, who were resettled after the Second World War.
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