| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 1500 | 950 |
| 1600 | 1240 |
| 1700 | 1660 |
| 1806 | 2369 |
| 1820 | 2687 |
| 1832 | 2934 |
| 1840 | 3251 |
| 1844 | 3457 |
| 1854 | 3712 |
| 1871 | 6302 |
| 1900 | 7319 |
| 1925 | 8467 |
| 1933 | 8572 |
| 1939 | 8402 |
| 1950 | 10337 |
| 1961 | 11997 |
| 1971 | 14582 |
| 1981 | 15095 |
| 1991 | 16831 |
| 2001 | 18626 |
| 2008 | 19576 |
| 2009 | 19668 |
| 2010 | 19796 |
Having developed from a rural market town into a city, predominated by industry, trade and the service industries, the demographics of Laupheim have changed as well.
After growing continuously from 1871 until 1933, from the Gründerzeit until the Nazis came to power, this development came to a halt. The stagnation and eventual decrease in population was due to increasing persecution of the Jews, as a result of which many Jewish inhabitants left Laupheim or, after 1940, were deported and subsequently murdered.
Since 1945, the population of Laupheim has almost doubled. This is due to the fact that a great number of refugees from formerly German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line were settled in Laupheim.
The establishment of a German Army Aviation Corps airbase in 1964 further contributed to the growth in population.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, an influx of ethnic Germans from the Commonwealth of Independent States added to the population growth.
The number of non-German inhabitants of Laupheim totals 1690 (8,6% of the total population).
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