Heidelberg - Population

Population

The population of the city of Heidelberg exceeded 100,000 for the first time in 1946. It is a city with an international population, including one of the largest American communities outside North America, but this is not analysed in the Heidelberg population statistics. At the end of December 2011, the city had 149,633 inhabitants with an official primary residence in Heidelberg (not including the soldiers and employees of the U.S. Army and their dependents, a total of about 20,000 people), an historic high.

The following table shows the number of inhabitants within the boundaries of the city at the time. To 1833 they are mostly estimates, then census results or official updates of the statistical offices of the time or the city administration. The data refer from 1843 to the "local population", from 1925 to the resident population and since 1987 the "population at the site of their main dwelling." Prior to 1843 the population was determined by non-uniform collection procedures.

Year Population
1439 5,200
1588 6,300
1717 4,800
1784 10,754
1810 10,312
1812 9,826
1830 13,345
3 December 1852 ¹ 14,564
3 December 1858 ¹ 15,600
3 December 1861 ¹ 16,300
3 December 1864 ¹ 17,666
3 December 1867 ¹ 18,300
1 December 1871 ¹ 19,983
1 December 1875 ¹ 22,334
Year Population
1 December 1880 ¹ 24,417
1 December 1885 ¹ 26,900
1 December 1890 ¹ 31,739
2 December 1895 ¹ 35,190
1 December 1900 ¹ 40,121
11 December 1905 ¹ 49,527
1 December 1910 ¹ 56,016
1 December 1916 ¹ 47,554
5 December 1917 ¹ 47,483
8 October 1919 ¹ 60,831
16 June 1925 ¹ 73,034
16 June 1933 ¹ 84,641
17 May 1939 ¹ 86,467
31 December 1945 95,811
Year Population
29 October 1946 ¹ 111,488
13 September 1950 ¹ 116,488
25 September 1956 ¹ 121,910
6 June 1961 ¹ 125,264
31 December 1965 125,507
27 May 1970 ¹ 129,656
31 December 1975 129,368
31 December 1980 133,227
31 December 1985 134,724
25 May 1987 ¹ 127,768
31 December 1990 136,796
31 December 1995 138,781
31 December 2000 140,259
31 December 2005 142,933
Year Population
31 December 2010 147,312
31 December 2011 149,633

¹ Census results

With a fertility rate of 1.1 children per woman in the Stadtkreis (county), Heidelberg had the lowest fertility rate in Baden-Württemberg in 2008.

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