Origin and Language
The proportion of foreign population, in 2005, amounted to 8.9 percent (versus Vienna city-wide: 18.7%). This was the lowest value of a Vienna district. As in the entire state, the proportion of foreigners has grown, as in 2001, the proportion was at 6.7 percent. The highest proportion of foreigners, in 2005, were, with 1.7% share of the district population, citizens from Serbia and Montenegro. Another 1.1% were German, 0.8% Turkish, 0.7% Polish and Croatian 0.6% respectively Bosnian citizens.
As a whole, in 2001, 14.2% of the district population were not born in Austria. Nearly 2.4% reported their common language as Serbian, 1.6% as Turkish, and 1.4 as Croatian.
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