Demographics
Haifa is Israel's third-largest city, consisting of 103,000 households, or a population of 266,300. Immigrants from the former Soviet Union constitute 25% of Haifa's population. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, Arab citizens of Israel constitute 10% of Haifa's population, the majority living in Wadi Nisnas, Abbas and Halissa neighborhoods.
Haifa is commonly portrayed as a model of co-existence between Arabs and Jews, although tensions and hostility do still exist. Several Palestinian organizations have been established to fight perceived discrimination in the allocation of resources, to protest the displacement of the Haifa Arabs whose homes were occupied by Jews, and to halt the destruction of Arab cultural property in the Haifa region.
| City of Haifa Population by year |
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| 1800 | 1,000 |
| 1840 | 2,000 |
| 1880 | 6,000 |
| 1914 | 20,000 |
| 1922 | 24,600 |
| 1947 | 145,140 |
| 1961 | 183,021 |
| 1972 | 219,559 |
| 1983 | 225,775 |
| 1995 | 255,914 |
| 2005 | 267,800 |
| 2009 | 265,000 |
The city has an aging population compared to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, as young people have moved to the center of the country for schooling and jobs, while young families have migrated to bedroom communities in the suburbs.
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