History
The Kongens Enghave district developed around the heavy industry of the Southern Docklands. The residential areas were built to satisfy a demand for workers for the many local companies and it has thus always been considered a working class neighbourhood. Gradually, Kongens Enghave gained a reputation for being the area in Denmark with most people on social welfare, the lowest education rate and life expectancy and high incidence of all major social problems.
From around the turn of the millennium, the picture has partially started to change. A large number of multinational companies have located in the area, while at the same time, the redevelopment of the harbour-front into attractive residential and mixed-use areas have attracted new residents. Dramatically rising real-estate prices and a shortage of cheap accommodation in Copenhagen during the last half of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s have also drawn new income groups and students to the area.
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